Note 10 — CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE (continued 4)

This statement of Withers, that Simon Girty was at the siege of Wheeling, was long accepted as fact by Western historians. But it is now established beyond doubt, that neither Simon nor his brothers were present at that affair, being at the time in the employ of Indian Agent Morgan, at Fort Pitt. For details of the evidence, consult Butterfield’s History of the Girtys, passim.––R. G. T.