208. Butts, Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, 156.
209. Ibid., 17–19.
210. Nye, A Baker’s Dozen, 99; Butts, Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, 20–22.
211. Nye, A Baker’s Dozen, 99; Butts, Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, 24–27.
212. Butts, Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, 28–32.
213. Ibid., 34–37.
214. Nelson, A Man of Distinction, 26–29.
215. Ibid., 24.
216. Ibid., x.
217. Hoffman, Simon Girty: Turncoat Hero, 32.
218. Ibid., 35; Butts, Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, 43.
219. Hoffman, Simon Girty: Turncoat Hero, 38.
220. Ibid., 39; Butts, Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, 44–45.
221. Hoffman, Simon Girty: Turncoat Hero, 39.
222. Ibid., 42.
223. Ibid., 49.
224. Hoffman, Simon Girty: Turncoat Hero, 59; Butts, Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, 51.
225. Butts, Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, 52–53.
226. Nye, A Baker’s Dozen, 101.
227. Butts, Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, 56–59.
228. “Colonel John Butler to Alexander McKee,” American Archives, 818–19.
229. “Proceedings of the Committee of Fort Pitt, (or West-Augusta) on Colonel John Butler’s Letter,” American Archives, 820.
230. Nelson, A Man of Distinction, 95.
231. Butts, Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, 62–63.
232. Ibid., 63.
233. Butterfield, History of the Girtys, 41.
234. “Lord George Germain to Sir Guy Carleton, March 26, 1777,” Collections, 346–47.
235. Nelson, A Man of Distinction, 98.
236. Butts, Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, 64–66; Butterfield, History of the Girtys, 45.
237. “General Edward Hand to Colonel William Crawford, December 28, 1777,” in Butterfield, The Washington-Crawford Letters, 66.
238. “General Edward Hand to Colonel William Crawford, February 5, 1778,” The Washington-Crawford Letters, 66–67.
239. Butts, Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, 68–69.
240. Butts, Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, 68–71; Butterfield, History of the Girtys, 47–48; Hoffman, Simon Girty: Turncoat Hero, 93–97.
241. Nye, A Baker’s Dozen, 101–104; Butts, Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, 72–73; Butterfield, History of the Girtys, 50–52; “General Edward Hand to General Horatio Gates” in Thwaites and Kellogg, Frontier Defense, 250.
242. Heckewelder, Narrative of the Mission, 174–75.
243. “General Edward Hand to Colonel William Crawford, March 30, 1778” in Thwaites and Kellogg, Frontier Defense, 252–53.
244. Nye, A Baker’s Dozen, 109.
245. Butts, Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, 78.
246. Nelson, A Man of Distinction, 117.
247. Nye, A Baker’s Dozen, 103–04.
248. Ibid., 105.
249. Butts, Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, 97.
250. “Colonel Arthur Campbell to Colonel William Davies, October 3, 1782,” in Palmer, Calendar of Virginia State Papers, 337–38.
251. Nelson, A Man of Distinction, 129.
252. Butts, Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, 160–62.
253. Nye, A Baker’s Dozen, 107–08.
254. Butts, Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, 134.
255. Ibid., 136–39; Butterfield, History of the Girtys, 167–69.
256. Butterfield, History of the Girtys, 173–75; Nye, A Baker’s Dozen, 107.
257. Hoffman, Simon Girty: Turncoat Hero, 171; Butts, Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, 141.
258. Heckewelder, Narrative of the Mission, 341.
259. Hoffman, Simon Girty: Turncoast Hero, 172–75; Butts, Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, 142–43.
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260. Nye, A Baker’s Dozen, 109; Butts, Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, 124, 138, 155, 163.
261. Withers, Chronicles of Border Warfare, 334; Haymond, History of Harrison County, 102; Butterfield, History of the Girtys, 241.
262. Haymond, History of Harrison County, 102.
263. Butterfield, History of the Girtys, 239–41.
264. Lough, Now and Long Ago, 614.
265. McWhorter, Border Settlers, 376–77.
266. Haymond, History of Harrison County, 102; Withers, Chronicles of Border Warfare, 334; Drake, et. al, Kentucky in Retrospect, 2,115–16.
267. Haymond, History of Harrison County, 102; Withers, Chronicles of Border Warfare, 334.
268. Kincaid, The Wilderness Road, xii.
269. Haymond, History of Harrison County, 102; Withers, 334; Lough, Now and Long Ago, 613.
270. Lough, Now and Long Ago, 612.
271. Ibid., 613–14; Haymond, History of Harrison County, 102; Withers, 334.
EPILOGUE
272. Snider, “Genealogical Monogram #7,” 3.
273. Ibid., 3–4.
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About the Author
Robert Thompson is a historian living in the St. Louis, Missouri area. A former career military officer, he has a bachelor’s degree in history from Texas Tech University and was a Distinguished Graduate of American Military University, from which he holds a graduate degree in Military Studies–Civil War. His previous work includes “William Averell’s Cavalry Raid on the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad,” published in the November 2000 issue of America’s Civil War, and “Battle of Cold Harbor: The Folly and Horror,” which appeared in the November 2006 issue of Military History.
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