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The celebrated Simon Girty, the so-called renegade, a noted Indian fighter, had himself been a prisoner of the Indians as a boy and was well acquainted with their language and customs.

In 1783 or 1784, visiting a town of the Munceys on the Scioto river he met a white captive of the tribe who had been adopted by an Indian family.

Three years before, Catherine Malott accompanying her father and mother from Maryland, being then a girl of fifteen, had been taken prisoner by the Indians when a passenger in a flat boat upon the Ohio a few miles below the present city of Wheeling.

Girty and Catherine fell in love with each other, and Girty procured her release from captivity.

He took her in the Fall of 1784 to his farm in the present town- ship of Colchester: and they were there married by an English Church clergyman, a missionary at that point.