James Smith (frontiersman)

James Smith was a frontiersman, farmer and soldier in British North America. In 1765, he led the Black Boys, a group of Pennsylvania men, in a ninemonth rebellion against British rule ten years before the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. He participated in the war as a colonel of the Pennsylvania militia and was a legislator in the Kentucky General Assembly. Smith was also an author, publishing his analysis of Native American methods of fighting in his Narrative in 1799.

Smith was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in an area now part of Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He had little formal education, but could read and write.

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