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    LANCASTER, Pennsylvania (WGAL) Dec. 27 marks the anniversary of the Paxton Boys Uprising that resulted in the death of more than 20 members of the Susquehannock tribe. Sunday night, members of the community held a remembrance ceremony.
It was Dec. 1763, the country had not yet gained its independence and the native people were at war with the British. A vigilante group seeking deadly revenge set their eyes on the tribes in the Susquehanna Valley. Sunday night, the lives of those lost were remembered.
The vigilantes were known as the Paxton Boys, a group of 50 men from Paxton Township. On Dec. 14, they rode in to Conestoga, where a Susquehannock reservation was located, and murdered six people.