Lazarus Stewart
Lazarus Stewart | |
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| Born | 4 July 1734 |
| Died | 3 July 1778 (aged 43) |
| Service years | 1755, 1770–1771, 1778 |
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Captain Lazarus Stewart (July 4, 1734 – July 3, 1778) was an American frontiersman and militia officer. He was a leader of the Paxton Boys, a group of Scots-Irish settlers who massacred a number of Susquehannock in 1763, and a prominent commander on the Connecticut side in the Pennamite–Yankee War. Stewart died during the Revolutionary War in battle with Loyalists and Haudenosaunee at the Battle of Wyoming.