In My Song "Renegade Soldier",
I try and point out the Ambiguity in Simon Girty's story, and i find
I may of added to it, but one thing is sure there are contrary accounts of him
and in an effort to show my point i need to
do future investigations, but the more i look the more questions
i have, Simon Girty was called a Traitor to his country yet he was born in
Indian country before the united States was born, Many of the fur traders had "country Wife's"
Indian Brides, they bonded in this way , they also were
tight amongst themselves and the Indian, Many time young
ones were adopted into the tribes and raised as one of them, as was Simon
Girty, but there are very complicated issues that culminated in this happening,
what started out as a Drunken brawl between his father and and Indian Named the
fish ended up in the vengeful death of his father and step father whom likewise
avenged, but to complicate it further his second father was a lieutenant and
had the family at the fort during an uprising in avenging the death of there
fellow Indian they took the children and adopted them. I'm in doubt to the
maternal parentage of Simon, he is described as having Black hair and Black
eye, not the traits of the Irish Man, He is described as being a blood thirsty villain
yet it is know that he saved life's and each side had there share of
atrocities, It is stated that his father was tossed of off Indian land because
of there complaints of the settlers yet he was a licensed trader had rented
prop from
Thomas Mckee whom was the one benefiting on numerous occasion
we see that Thomas Mckee not only rented land but sponsored
Traiders, Including lending money to Simon sr for his
grubstake.The
interesting thing about Mckee is his trading post was a key spot
for
activity between the six nations and the authorities, they
on at-lest one
occasion had meet there and the result of that meeting was
that it was
clear that some people had preference with the Indians and
they were there to do business with them (the Traders) and
the only ones
doing the forced removal was the Provential Authorities,outside
there
jurisdiction, while appearing at the same time to enforce what
else Taxation
I suspect tampering with this post
