The pioneers in Hanover Township had already made history in other Pennsylvania. Among the settlers were strong minded, self-reliant men of Scotch-Irish antecedents, men who, in the time of the Indian unrest that followed the French and Indian war, had relied more upon themselves than upon the government for protection. The Paxton Boys of Lancaster County, had dealt so sternly with the Conestoga Indians in 1763 that there was peace on the Conestoge and that part of the Susquehanna for many years after. Captain Lazarus Stewart and his company of forty -most of who where Paxton Boys - moved from Lancaster County into the Wyoming Valley in 1770 and fought for Connecticut against the Penns. hanovertownship.org/history.html
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