Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1873-06-07

youth, in 1880. at The old Williamsport
Court House, while lie was in attendance
there as witness In sorne suit on trial be-
fore William wilkinb, then President Judge
of the District Court of the United States.
The General was dressed in military suit
of grey cloth. and had sword hanging at
his side. lie attracted great attention
| while at court, and Al Sunbury. Gx4
Robert Brady's history is unknoNyt TO
me, but he. like his brothers, was largSA And
powerful man. Gen. Hugh Brady, inthis
Memoir of his fathers family, says !:
"There were six brolhers OF us, w sSam-
uel, James, John, William p, and Robert.
There was but an inch and n half differ
ence in our heights. John was six feet and
an inch, and l was the shortest Of them
all. is K not remarkable that /, who was
considered ,lic most feeble of all should
outlivc ELL roy brothers, after having been
exposed 10 more dangers and vicissitudes
! than any except Samuel 7 Is it not o proof
that there is, from the beginning, day
appointed for man 10 die !? 1t is said that
! The race is not to the swift nor the battle
! to the strong, but safety is of the Lord.
| That has ever been my belicf.D
Samuel Brady.--This Samuel WAS the
uncle of the famous Capt. Sam already no.
ticed. Uncle Sam Brady as he is COM
| monty called by our old writers, was from
all accounts, nearly as great an Indian kill
Ter as his nephew, the younger Sam. Peter
Grove, in describing the adventures of the
younger Sam. says: There was an uncle
Of Captain Sans, whose name was also
Sam Brady, and to distinguish .hem we
called him Uncle Sam.' He was a man
Of the largest size, and Of great activity /; a
great friend to liberty, and he proved it,
for to many red coat he gave deeper
dye, and manya lowering savage he laid
low. 1t was he who taught the boys in
their youth to run, jump, swim and shoot,
and all exercises that he thought would be
of use in case the storm would burst that
was then gathering over our country. 1t
did burst and Uncle Sans country was
rewarded for his pains in the service of his
nephews.' This Uncle Sam was of course
the brother Of the younger Capt Sans ia
! thcr. .lIIa. sdf -
1779, July 26.-This was tho day when
Fort Freeland, in Turbut township, was
taken and burnt down by the British and
Indians, and none of its soldiers except
Uncle Sam Brady, and Capt. Johr Dough.
erty escaped being taken prisoners. 'Kis-
keminetas.' who has written pretty much
all we know about tho younger Sam says of
this attack Oh the fort 'TheyI( Uncle Sam
and Capt. Dougherty) left the fort together,
pursued by host of Indians, but the ha-
eel bushes were so thick on the side of the
| fort at which they came out, that it was
| impossible for the enemy to follow them.
Capt. Dougherty, who was an uncommon
! ly active man, could load his rifle whilst
under cover of the brush, and when he
! heard the noise OF an Indian he would leap
high enough to see and fire on him. Uncle
Sam had made his way through tho large
thicket upon plain below. and thought
it best, as he afterwards said, to make
his eternal escape. lie had already run q
considerable distance when, on looking
back he bcheld two Indians ip pursuit, one
of them a large, dangerous looking fellow
and the other of small stature. lie SAM
renewed his speed and was getting along
pretty we'll when his foot slipped into q
hole aud he fell down. The large Indian
was foremost and armed, but Brady, who
had fallen, rihe in hand, shot at the savage
who gave a wild yell and fell dead. The
little warrior, thinking perhaps there WAS
more rifles about, wheeled and made for
the fort. At the edge of the fort he met
Captain Dougherty, who split his skull
| with the butt end of his rife and ran on.
The two, Dougherty and Brady, only re-
! Nlftu tuot utJ Wv
news to Fort Augusta 70 lIar. Reg,
Penna. 269. ..rr ... .r. .
The latter part ofthis sketch is errone-
Gus, as all of the able bodied living soldiers
of the fort from lS to "a in number who
surrendered themselves as prisoners ofwal
had their lives spared, while the womer
and children of the fort, about 90 in mum
ber and including four old men who were
unable to walk fast or march were allowed
to 90 90 Sunbury and reached Northum
berland in the evening of the same day al
we learn from various letters in our Penna
Archives giving US full accounts of th'
capture and burning of Fort Frceland i'm
mediateiy after it happened. AS thi
description of the Brady family ia still in
complete. especially as it regards VIM. p
ard Robert Brady | would be pleased to
have some one, who can, give US full ac'
count of their history. l- ..
Captain John Brady had four daught
ers named Jane, Hannah, h,---rest q
names not known to me. Jane was tin
the twin sister of Hugh, and Hannah wa
the youngest Of the girls. Two of Bradv's
sous, but which two | cannot say, marriet
two daughters of Col, William Cook O
Northumberland. Perhaps Peter Gray O
Sunbury, n relative of the Brady family
can give your readers all the further infor
nation now needed. .....r .....
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