It is certain that he, like the noted French-Canadian Joucaire, delighted to sit round the camp fires and to go into the council-lodge and talk to the assembled Indians.
At the outbreak of the revolution Girty was a commissioned officer of militia at Ft.Pitt.He deserted from the Fort, taking with him the Tories McKee and Elliott, and twelve soldiers, and these traitors spread as much terror among the Delaware Indians as they did among the whites.

The Delawares had been one of the few peacefully disposed tribes.

In order to get them to join their forces with Governor Hamilton, the British commander, Girty declared that Gen.

Washington had been killed, that Congress had been dispersed, and that the British were winning all the battles.
Girty spoke most of the Indian languages, and Hamilton employed him to go among the different Indian tribes and incite them to greater hatred of the pioneers.

This proved to be just the life that suited him.