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Last name Girty
First name Simon
Display name Simon Girty
Birth date 1741
Death date 1818
Gender m
Affiliations Mingo indians, Seneca indians
Bio notes Was captured in a Seneca raid in Pennsylvania. Interpreted for tribes in the service of the British. Lived near the Detroit River

Mentioned in:

A Mission to the Indians from the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to Fort Wayne, in 1804

Jacob Lindley's Account, 1793

Joseph Moore's Journal

Wm. Hartshorne's Journal of Journey to Detroit 1793