GIRTY: History of the Girtys, a concise account of the Girty brothers - Thomas, Simon, James & George & Their half-brother John TurnerBy Consul Willshire Butterfield History of the Girtys: this is an account of the Girty brothers, Thomas, Simon, James and George, and of their half brother John Turner : Simon Girty Sr., (also Girtee, Girte, Gerty) emigrated from the Emerald Isle, Ireland to Pennsylvania, settling on the Susquehanna River, near Harrisburg, then Lancaster County. He married Mary Newton. We read of the part taken by them in Lord Dunsmore' s war, in the western border