In the wars of early America, some individuals literally turned against their own kind after they had gone to live with the Indians. According to Sir William Johnson, such people often proved to be "the most Inveterate enemies" of the whites. John Ward was captured at three years of age by the Shawnees, who adopted him. He married an Indian woman, and they had three children. He fought against the Virginians at the battle of Point Pleasant in Lord Dunmore's War, where his natural father was killed. In 1792, he participated in a skirmish against a Kentucky militia that included his brother; a year later he was killed in a clash in which another brother fought on the opposing side. Another "renegade", George Collett also fought at Point Pleasant, exhorting his Shawnee friends to fight against "the white Damnd. Sons of bitches". After the battle, Collett was found among the Indian dead. His brother, who was in the Virginian army, identified the body.
