223-340.

It took place in the early days of September.] was attacked by two or three hundred Indians; with them came a party of Detroit Rangers, marshalled by drum and fife, and carrying the British colors.

[Footnote The accounts of the different sieges of Wheeling were first written down from the statements of the pioneers when they had grown very aged.

In consequence, there is much uncertainty as to the various incidents.

Thus there seems to be a doubt whether Girty did or did not command the Indians in this first siege.
The frontiersmen hated Girty as they did no other man, and he was credited with numerous actions done by other white leaders of the Indians; the British accounts say comparatively little about him.