From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Mar 7 14:06:33 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k27L6Xjb029443; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 14:06:33 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k27L6WYR029880 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 14:06:32 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k27IaPFI031965 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:36:25 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k27IaPd9031964 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:36:25 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k27I7RFI031852 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:07:28 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k27KbNGT004068 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:37:23 -0700 X-Envelope-From: MaeMay510@aol.com Tue Mar 7 13:37:22 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k27KbMjb004057 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:37:22 -0700 Received: from imo-m27.mx.aol.com (imo-m27.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.8]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k27KbKti016026 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:37:20 -0700 Received: from MaeMay510@aol.com by imo-m27.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.3.) id e.1fc.11d0dc98 (17228) for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 15:37:01 -0500 (EST) From: MaeMay510@aol.com Message-ID: <1fc.11d0dc98.313f48ed@aol.com> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 15:37:01 EST To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5301 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Dirty Girty In a message dated 3/7/2006 1:51:56 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com writes: Darn! Here I thought the Girtys were loyalists trying to preserve the English government in the new world. The British thought so. Paid them with land in Canada when the Revolutionary War was over. I will confess to mixed feelings about Jim Girty, as he and his Indians attacked a flatboat of my family on the Ohio and later bought a daughter of the family for a wife. She wasn't particularly submissive as she took the flat of a sword to him once. But then again, a direct ancestor married an Indian girl about the same time and spent the war on the frontier, protecting settlers from the Indians. Wonder what his wife thought? Wonder what ever happened to him after the massacre at Hannastown, Westmoreland Co., PA. The Westmorelanders called him Dirty Girty (no "dancing with wolves" at that time) for revealing their methods to the natives. Of course, to our eternal shame, the burning alive of the peace seeking natives locked in the meeting house will heap coals on our collective heads. I suppose it depends on which side we view history, but the losers' side seems a tad more genuine than the boasting of the winners' side. Are you related to Dirty Girty? Shirley