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	Henry County, Ohio
		Girty’s cabin and trading-house were on the left bank of the river, and it was said, "When he was apprehensive of a surprise he would retire to the island, as a tiger to his jungle, with a sense of almost absolute security from his pursuers."
		Simon was adopted by the Senecas, and became an expert hunter.
		Girty renewed his proposition, but it was abruptly ended by a shot from a thoughtless youth, and Girty retired and opened the siege, which proved unsuccessful.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~henryhowesbook/henry.html (2838 words)

	Simon Girty
		Girty was to serve as an interpreter and intermediary to the Six Nations, and was sent by Morgan to the Grand Council of the Iroquois League which met once a year at Onondaga, New York.
		Girty’s promised commission was again denied him, and after determining that it was the intention of the rebel leaders to cross the Ohio River to settle the hunting grounds of the Indians who then resided there, Girty defected in March of 1778.
		Girty’s old friend Simon Kenton was captured by hostile Shawnees in the summer of 1778, and after being dragged from one Indian town to another, where he was beaten and made to run gauntlets, the Kentuckian was taken to the Shawnee town of Wapatomica where he was condemned to be burned to death.
	www.virtualology.com /apsimongirty (2351 words)

	Descendant makes a case for Simon Girty
		Ken Girty, a 66-year-old Butler County man and descendant of the frontiersman, says that after nearly 10 years of research, he understands why his ancestor defected and is convinced that his reputation for cruelty is exaggerated.
		One of Girty's biggest misdeeds, according to the Ohio Historical Society, was his conduct during the tortuous death of Col. William Crawford near Upper Sandusky in northwestern Ohio.
		Girty refused and laughed at Crawford, according to one account of a soldier who said he saw the torture and later escaped the Indian camp.
	www.post-gazette.com /regionstate/19991229girty4.asp (684 words)

	Simon Girty
		Girty was to serve as an interpreter and intermediary to the Six Nations, and was sent by Morgan to the Grand Council of the Iroquois League which met once a year at Onondaga, New York.
		Girty’s promised commission was again denied him, and after determining that it was the intention of the rebel leaders to cross the Ohio River to settle the hunting grounds of the Indians who then resided there, Girty defected in March of 1778.
		Girty’s old friend Simon Kenton was captured by hostile Shawnees in the summer of 1778, and after being dragged from one Indian town to another, where he was beaten and made to run gauntlets, the Kentuckian was taken to the Shawnee town of Wapatomica where he was condemned to be burned to death.
	www.famousamericans.net /simongirty (2351 words)

	Simon Girty - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Girty, Simon (1741-1818), American frontiersman and scout, born in what is now Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
		Simon, Paul (musician), born in 1941, American musician and composer, known for his folk-rock songs and collaboration with musicians from many...
		Simon Girty (1741 – February 18, 1818) was an American colonial of Scots-Irish ancestry who served as a liaison between the British and their Native American allies during the American Revolution
	encarta.msn.com /Simon_Girty.html (194 words)

	Simon Kenton - Frontier Hero
		Simon knew that he was an intruder in hostile territory, and he became particularly adept at finding and interpreting the subtle signs in the woods that Native American hunting parties had come this way and may still be in the area.
		Simon was recruited to serve in the campaign led by Lord Dunmore, governor of the colonies of New York and Virginia appointed by the King of England, to quell the Indian threats to pioneers on the frontier.
		Simon and Tecumseh both loved the land beyond all else, and therein is the essential tragedy of the frontier; it was simply not large enough for the two nations to peacefully coexist.
	www.dnr.state.oh.us /parks/explore/magazine/fallwin2003/simonkenton.htm (3658 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Simon Girty
		Simon Girty (1741–February 18, 1818) was a British subject, born in what is now the United States, who served as a liaison between the British and their Native American allies during the American Revolution.
		Defenders of Girty point out that the Natives were enraged by American atrocities, that Crawford's torture was in retaliation, and that Girty could not have stopped the torture without risking his own life.
		Simon Girty served as one of the jury members in Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Simon_Girty (358 words)

	(GC7331) Dirty Girty by CCCooperAgency (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Simon Girty and his tribe roamed the wilderness northwest of the Ohio, and when the expedition under Colonel Henry Bouquet, at the close of the Pontiac War, in 1764, dictated peace to the Indian tribe on the Muskingum, one of the hostages given up by the Ohio Indians was Simon Girty.
		Girty's brutality reached its climax when he refused any request, even to discuss terms of easier punishment for his former friend and brother officer, but viewed with apparent satisfaction the most horrible and excruciating tortures which that ill-fated but brave and gallant Crawford was doomed to suffer.
		Girty acted as interpreter when the United States attempted to negotiate with the Confederated Nations, for an adjustment of the difficulties during which his conduct was insolent, and he was false in his duty as interpreter.
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	Early Canada Historical Narratives -- SIMON GIRTY
		Simon Girty was one of the better known Indian department scouts whose fame or infamy depended on whether one were British or American.
		Girty was a man of great ability in working with Native leaders and he attended most Aboriginal conferences as official interpreter.
		Simon Girty was high on the American hit list and he barely managed to escape capture by swimming across the Detroit River holding onto his horse's tail.
	www.uppercanadahistory.ca /ttuc/ttuc9.html (1501 words)

	Simon Girty biography
		Simon Girty was perhaps the most hated man on the American frontier in the mid 1700s.
		Simon Girty began dressing like an Indian, and he would distribute guns and ammunition to the warrior tribes, all the while building them to a fever pitch with his fierce anti-American rhetoric.
		Girty was able to thus organise many raids from the Detroit area that reached as far as Kentucky.
	okok.essortment.com /simongirtybiog_rbzy.htm (615 words)

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		Girty was disgusted by the perfidy of the Americans and, soon after returning to Fort Pitt, he defected to the British along with fellow scouts Alexander McKee and George Elliot.
		Girty's ability to add "the acquirements of the whites to the instinct and skill of the savages" inverted one of the most racist tenants of the frontier-hero myth.
		In Girty the corrupting influence of the frontier overcame the civility of his white race, but he is strengthened by the process, creating a new race of man that is, by virtue of its very existence, diametrically opposed to white civilization.
	etext.virginia.edu /journals/EH/EH40/barr40.html (6725 words)

	THE CRUELTIES OF GIRTY
		It was the diabolical brain of Girty which tormented the Christian Indians of the Moravian settlements, drove them from spot to spot, and placed them in that ambiguous position which the pioneers mistook for treachery or hostility, and which resulted in the slaughter of more than ninety of their number.
		Girty's influence, and a well-timed promise, which was never intended to be kept, that she should be returned after visiting her mother in Detroit, secured her release.
		Girty, to revenge himself for this disappointment, drove poor Hunt back to a spot on the plain, which, though out of range of the guns, was in full view of the garrison.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/colonial/pioneer/chap17.html (3642 words)

	Simon Girty's descendants soak up ancestor's history
		Simon Girty Jr., a renegade of the American Revolution, was a man of divided loyalties.
		Girty was a renegade of the American Revolution whose descendants gathered from all over the country yesterday.
		Captured in Pennsylvania by the western Senecas at age 15 and later returned to Colonial society, Girty spoke 11 Indian dialects, served as a scout to the British at Fort Pitt and deserted the Colonial army to fight with the British in the American Revolution.
	www.post-gazette.com /regionstate/20000625girty5.asp (659 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Simon Girty was born at the beginning of the last great period of Indian-white warfare east of the Mississippi, and his entire life was spent in the vortex of the struggle.
		Simon lived with Senecas — apparently Mingos, as the Iroquois residents of the upper Ohio were known to the British.
		Perhaps because of his association with Alexander McKee, an Indian agent and known loyalist, Girty* was confined to Pittsburgh after the American revolution reached the “back country.” Together with McKee and Matthew Elliott, he fled the town in the spring of 1778, and this escape set the stage for the central episodes of his career.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=36542 (1107 words)

	The Official Simon Kenton Home Page
		Simon Kenton was born in 1755, in the Bull Run Mountains of Prince William County, Virginia.
		Simon had a fairly uneventful youth but was intrigued by stories of the Kentucky wilderness until one day he was forced to flee to the frontier at the age of 16 under unusual circumstances.
		Like the glowing iron straight from the coals to the anvil, Simon's later teen years forged a character that caused him to be respected for his knowledge of the land and competence as a woodsman by pioneer and indian alike.
	frontierfolk.org /kenton.htm (1045 words)

	UELAC.org - Loyalist Monuments - Simon Girty Memorial Stone
		Simon Girty was born in 1741 near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
		Simon was adopted by the Seneca Indians, living with them for eight years, then was repatriated in 1764.
		Girty was exiled in 1812 when the Americans took control of Amherstburg but continued to reside there until his death.
	www.uelac.org /Loyalist-Monuments/Girty-Simon.php (414 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Dirty Simon Girty - Outlaw - A330977
		Girty was adopted by the Seneca Indians and was raised as one of the tribe.
		Girty was vilified through history for not saving his friend, but recently historians have said that Girty was helpless and would have been subjected to the same fate as Crawford if he had tried to interfere.
		Girty moved to Canada where he supposedly froze to death at the age of 74.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A330977 (572 words)

	Kimmy's Corner --
		He said Girty had a scar on one side of his head just about the edge of his hair, and he told which side of the head the scar was on.
		He said, "I guess your name is Simon Girty." But Girty denied it, so Morris stepped up to him and pushed his hair up and there was the scar, just as the man had described it, and the side on which he had said it was.
		The militia trailed Girty and the Indian from their camp on Robinson?s fork of Twenty Mile through to Elk River, which they had crossed a place afterward known as little goose island, Because the trail was so old the men had to travel very slowly.
	www.freewebs.com /kimmys_corner/genealogy.htm (2907 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Dirty Simon Girty - Outlaw - A330977
		Girty's Notch, named after Simon Girty, is a rock formation located along the western bank of the Susquehanna River just south of Liverpool, Pennsylvania, along Routes 11 and 15.
		Girty was adopted by the Seneca Indians and was raised as one of the tribe.
		Girty served the English as a scout and interpreter.
	www.bbc.net.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A330977 (572 words)

	Simon Girty biography
		Simon Girty was perhaps the most hated man on the American frontier in the mid 1700s.
		Simon Girty began dressing like an Indian, and he would distribute guns and ammunition to the warrior tribes, all the while building them to a fever pitch with his fierce anti-American rhetoric.
		Girty was able to thus organise many raids from the Detroit area that reached as far as Kentucky.
	ks.essortment.com /simongirtybiog_rbzy.htm (615 words)

	Friends of the Frontier
		Girty’s reason was not so much the pledge of allegiance to King George, which he had taken and never renounced, as it was his disgust at the way Americans were treating the Indians in general and himself in particular.
		Girty happened to be in one of the villages where Kenton ran the gauntlet helping the Crown and the Shawnee by serving the Shawnee to resist the oncoming wave of white settlers.
		Simon Girty was well liked and more than once had he proven that his interests lay with the Shawnee.
	www.friendsofthefrontier.org /Frontier/girty.asp (1266 words)

	Girty's Island
		Simon Girty was adopted by the Seneca as a young man and sided with the British to fight the Revolutionaries in the Ohio Territory.
		You might also be able to hear the cries of some of Simon's victims, screaming in pain as they're skinned alive an inch at a time.
		Girty never killed anyone on this island, but the screams are part of the haunting legend all the same.
	www.forgottenoh.com /Counties/Henry/girty.html (130 words)

	Simon Girty
		GIRTY came to see the prisoner, and, as the latter had been painted fl-a custom among the Indians when captives are to be burned-did not recognize his old associate.
		GIRTY was one of the plotters of the scheme which resulted in the breaking up of the missionary establishments upon the Muskingum.
		Simon GIRTY was little, if any, less cruel and bloodthirsty than his brothers, but his restless activity and audacity, and his conduct in first pretending friendship for the American cause, and afterwards deserting to the British, made him the most notorious and hated of the family.
	www.shawhan.com /Girty.htm (3560 words)

	Simon Girty Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Simon Girty (1741-1818), American frontiersman and one of American history's infamous renegades, defected to the British during the Revolution and led Indian raids on his own people.
		Simon Girty was born near Harrisburg, Pa. His father was killed by Indians, Simon was held prisoner by the Seneca for 3 years, and at 15 he was forced to watch his stepfather being tortured to death at the stake.
		Girty particularly wanted the scalp of Col. John Gibson because the colonel had repulsed Girty's siege of Ft. Laurens and in a captured letter had bragged that he would trepan Girty--that is, open his skull--if he caught him.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/simon-girty (412 words)

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		Girty was disgusted by the perfidy of the Americans and, soon after returning to Fort Pitt, he defected to the British along with fellow scouts Alexander McKee and George Elliot.
		Beginning with the inception of the Girty myth in 1783 and continuing throughout the nineteenth century to the zenith of the Girty legend in the 1880s, numerous writers labored to construct a mythical version of Simon Girty that would reflect their inherent beliefs about the frontier and its potentially corrupting influence on American civilization.
		In Girty the corrupting influence of the frontier overcame the civility of his white race, but he is strengthened by the process, creating a new race of man that is, by virtue of its very existence, diametrically opposed to white civilization.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /journals/EH/EH40/barr40.html (6725 words)

	edsanders.com - Simon Girty
		A Historical Marker to Simon Girty was erected in June, 2001 at Fort Hunter near Harrisburg Pa. It was attended by Ken Girty and family and members of Crawfords family.
		Simon Girty was born and reared in Western Pennsylvania, near the Virginia line.
		Whether Girty really took pleasure in the torture of Colonel Crawford, or was forced by the circumstances to seem to enjoy it is a question which historians have generally been in too much haste to determine.
	www.edsanders.com /hist005.htm (2092 words)

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		Simon Girty was born 1741 near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
		Simon was adopted into a Seneca family, and lived with them for eight years.
		Girty was also taught to understand the native view of the world, a lesson that would remain with him for the rest of his life.
	www.edunetconnect.com /cat/candict/g.html (750 words)

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		Girty's tale is intimately entangled with the nearly seventy year long warfare of the eastern Woodland Indian tribes against the incursions of the Europeans into their lands.
		His Simon Girty is still a dark figure, but emerges more as a tragic hero trapped by fate than as the beast he was so long pictured.
		Simon Girty is a fascinating character, who was in his own time as famous and able a frontiersman as Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton.
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	Simon Girty
		Simon Girty, the renegade, Simon Girty, the savage, was the son of old Simon Girty, the packer, an Irishman who drove pack-horses through the wilderness and saved enough money from his wages to start himself as an unlicensed Indian trader.
		Girty led a number of forays, scalping the white settlers after the manner of the Indians, and wreaking a most terrible vengeance upon his former neighbors.
		Girty was simply a mean type of a very bad white man. He is described on various occasions as being dressed as an Indian, but this was, probably, not his usual custom.
	www.inquiry.net /traditional/beard/pioneers/chap04.htm (1216 words)

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