Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1873-06-07
Miscellaneous.
[From the Miltonan.l
The Brady Family Of Old Northum-
bcrlamI County.

[From the Mitonian.l
The Brady Family OF old Northum-
bcrland County.
Much has been written about Captain
John Brady and his family but the follow
ing brief notices Of him and his six sons
will, think, be interesting to your read
ers. Let us Dok at them separately. i.,
} 'hn Brady, the head of this family was
of Irish descent. He was born in the State
of Delaware 10 1888, and afterwards lived
about five miles from Shippensburs, Cum
berand county, Pa, where his father,
Hugh Brady, had settled himself in the
wilderness, then thnnly inhabited by Irish
settlers. During our wars with the In
dians in that region, John took 80
active and vigorous a part that he was
soon promoted to captaincy of militia
company. In 1772, John, with Mary Quig-
ley, his wife, and his first born Samuel,
then about IA years old, and his younger
sons, james, John, &C., settled
himself on the West Branch Of our Sus-
quehanna, on its east side, little below
where the present town OF Lewisburg now
stands. And from that point he after
wards moved to the nei2hborhood of Mum
cy where he built himself fort named
Fort Brady for his own protection aud
that of his neighbors against the Indians,
and in April. 1779, was killed and scalped
by the Indians near Fort Brady at the
age of about 46 years. '.
Now let us notice his sons in their order
of ages, beginning with the oldest.
Samuel Brady, his oldest son, was the
famous Captain Sam Brady,' who was
born at Shippensburg in 1853. lie resided
with his father on our West Brauch until
1775, when he joined Captain Louden's
volunteer company Of rideWcn, of North
umberland, and served in our continental
army under Gen. Washington, and was
in most of our great battles, to wit Bran
dywine, Princeton. &c. In January, 1879,
sam joined Gen. Dan'l Broadhead at Fort
Pitt, now Pittsburg, and soon after COM
mcnced his daring exploits among the In
dians that would, if collected and detailed,
make a pretty large volume of printed
matter. Sam died in 1896 in the 3Tth
year of his aye. .r.I..
James Brady was the captain of little
band of about or 10 soldiers sent out by
Captain Walker from Fort Muncy to guard
and protect Peter Smiths reapers and
cradiers while reaping oats in August,
l77S, in field on Turkey Run, short
distance below where the proseut city of
Willamsport now stands. And while 80
engaged in August, 177S, James was toni
ahawked and scalped by a skulking band
of Seneca Indians headed by those notori-
Gus Seneca chiefs named Bald Eagle and
Cornplanter. Being still alive James de-
sired to be taken to his mother, then at
Sunbury, which was done, and after lin
gering in great agony, he died on the even
ing of the fifth day greatly lamented by all
who knew him. He was 9 very. .hadsome,
red.haired man, and only lacked q quar-.
tnr - r,f ,nh af l.tt osr E,nt L. t,vl, nd
had fine mind. His age Is not known to
me, but he was quite a young man yet, 80
John Brady, in 1776,, in the fifteenth
year of his age, accompanied by his father,
who had accepted of a captaincy Of q mi
litia company in the 10Th Pennsylvania
Regiment, under the command ofCol. Wm.
Cook. Brady, the father, and some 9TH
ers, went TO our army on horseback, and
John was with them for the purpose of
bringing the horses home. But before
John got away, the battle of Brandywne
commenced, and John, shouldering a rifle,
put himself among his fathers men, and
took an active part in the fight. In this
fearful battle, Capt. John Brady was 40
severely wounded that he was compelled to
return home to our West Branch. En-
sign William Boyd, of Brady's company,
was killed, and young John Brady him
self was wounded. and would have been
captured by the British if Colonel Cook
had not come to his rescue, and saved him
by fight on horseback. In October, l779,
the widow Brady, his mother (wbo had af
ter the death of her husband, gone to her
| fathers home in Cumberland county
moved to and settled herself on one of her
her son John, then IN the 18th year Of his
| ha tl 10 ,an
Hugh Brady. in describing the state OF
things IN Buffalo valley, in 1779-80, says
''Pickets were placed around the houses,
and the old men, women and children re-
mained within during the day, while al
who could work and carry arms, returned
to their farms for the purpose OF raising
something to subsist upon. Many day
have walked by the side of my brother
John, while he was plOwing. and carriot
my rifle in Que hand, and fOrkcd stick iT
the other, to clear the plow shear ~ il
1888. his mother died, aged AZ years, and
in 1884, John got married, aud his eldes
sister soon after followed his example il
marrying also. John Brady, Jr., this
John, was the Sheriff of Northumberland
county in l794-5-6. He then resided il
the town of Milton, and continued resid
ing there until his death, in 1909, aged Al
! years. And his widow, alter MN, contlnu
ed her residence in Milon until on or abou
the year 1929, when she too died there.
OF William z. Brady l can say very lit
tie for the want Of reliable facts. lie seem
to have moved TO Southwestern Peensyl
vania, where he purchased and improves
lands, and made himself a home, but this j
all can say of his history,
General Hugh Brady, rs he is now call
ed, was born at the Standing Stone, one
an Indian town, now IIuntindon, in Hun
tingdon county, Pa, in July, 1T6S, AM
was the fifth of the sons in point Of time
All of his younger si.ters, and his brothe
Robert, after their mothers death in 17Si
lived either with his brother John or viii
their oldest married sister, Mrs. William
Gray, but Hugh himself went out to hi
brother Samuel in Western Pennsylvania
and made Sans house his home until 1872
when he, Hugh, became an Ensign, som
say Lieutenant, in Capt. John Crawford
rifle company, in General Anihon
Waync's army. In July, 1897, Hugh re
turned to Sunbury, and remained ther
until the winter of 1859, when he becam
a Captain in Adams army, and after re
NAMING i'm that office something less thai