The Paxton Boys were vigilantes from Pennsylvania made up of Scotts-Irish frontiersmen. They became famous in 1763, during the Indian War, when inebriated attacked a Suesquehannock (a native tribe) settlement on the Susquehanna murdering 20 innocent people. Governor Penn ordered the arrest and prosecution of the men involved in the massacre, but the local population, sympathetic with the Paxton Boys, covered them up so that none would face a trial. This kind of animosity of the frontiersmen against the native tribes throughout the American Revolution and afterwards.