Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-11-13

gwinet, not far from Shippcnsburg, in
! Cumberland county, about the year
l7j0.* In the quiet the Province had
before the coming storm of the French
and Indian war, he followed the usual
avocations of frontier life the prmeval
forest yearly bowing to the settlers axe.
His personal appearance has come down
to us by tradition; he was six feet high.
we'll formed, had coal black hair, hazel
eyes and of rather dark complexion.
About the year 1853 he married Mary
Quigley, who was also of Scotch. Irish ex.
traction, and in the year 1886 his eldest
son, the celebrated Capt. Samuel Brady,
was born in the mids. of the tempest.
uous waves of trouble that rolled in
upon the settlements in the wake of
Braddock's defeat.f Armstrong; ex.
petition against Kittaning was then or.
ganizcd and marched from Fort Shirley
on the Both OF August, three hundred
strong, Brady going along as a private.
Gen. James Potter, his subsequent AS
sociate in the settlement of this valley,
was Lieutenant in the command and
was wounded at kittaning. Kittauis z
was destroyed on the sth of September,
and the settlers returned in triumph.
But this severe retaliation did not de-
ter the savages as late as the Sth of
November. 1856, they entered the Cum
berland Valley, killed a number of in.
habitants and carried away captives.
Forbes expedition against Fort Du
aues..e followed in 1858. His troops
were composed in part of the regular
forces of the Province, but Brady does
not seem to have been along, not at
least IA an officer, as there is a very cir.
cumstantial account eNtant of every
officer that accompanied the expedition.
-Pennsylvania Archives. 2d series, vol.
. pages 500, &c. On Forbes approach
the F. ench burned Fort Duquesne and
retired, thus terminating the struggle
between the French and English for
the Ohio Valley Nov. -, 1883. Gen.
Stannix bLilt Fort Pitt upon the ruins
of Fort Duquesne in 1859, and on the
18th of September, upon the plains OF
Abraham, rendered immortal by the
death Of Gen. Wolfe, Montcalm, with
the Lilies OF France went down be.
fore the Cross Of st. George virtual
ly ending French dominion in North
America. This was followed by the
peace of Paris, February 10, 1868.
But the end was not yet to blazing
homes and border conflicts on the from
tiers. Pontiac has secretly organized
his noted conspiracy Of the Indian
tribes extending from the Lakes to the
Lower Mississippi, and now called upon
them, in fiery eloqueuce, 10 save their
race from slavery and ruin, and to drive
the English into the Atlantic. About
the 27th Of April, 1868, he assembled n
council on the banks of the EXcorces,
small stream not far from Detroit, and
having aroused the chiefs in speech
Of unparalleled fury TO terrible earnest.
ness he let the tribes loose in vengetul
wrath upon the frontiers. While Ma
turc was robing the forests of the West
in the green mantle OF May, they stole
silently through the n, seized most Of
the forts uuawares and m.ssacred the
gArrisous. They even surrounded Fort
Pitt, and for five days threatened its
capture, their scouting parties from the
North penetrating nearly 10 Reading.
Then John Brady sPrang from the
ranks apparently TO the Office OF Cap.
tain. lie was commissioned July 10,
1863. Captain Of the Second Battalion
of the Pcnnsylyania Regiment, "Com.
manded by Governor John Penn Tur.
butt Francis and Asher Clayton, Lieu
tenant commaudants. Then came Bou.
auets expedition for the relief Of Fort
Pitt. the battle of Bushy Run beyond
Fort Ligonier August 3, 1863, hard
fought battle Of two days, in which
Bouquets troops suffered severely, but
he at last defeated the Indians by
bold stratagem-a victory which saved
Fort Pitt, relieved the Western front.
iers, and the Proviucials returned to
battle with inroads from the North.
This closed the year 1868.
With the return of spring in l164,
their incursions were renewed, and in
the Pennsylvania Gazette Of April ,, l1G4.
there is an account of 1.-THE Indian dep
relations in the Carlisle region on the
10Th. 2lst and 22d of March killing
people, burning houses and making
captives," adding, Captains Piper and
Brady, with their companies, did all
that lay in their power to protect the
inhabitants. No man can go to sleep
within ten or fifteen miles Of the border
without being in danger Of having his
house burned and himself or family
scalped or led into captivity before the
next morning. The people along the
North Mountain are moving farther in,
especially about Shippensburg. which is
crowded with families OF that neighbor-
hood"
Bouquets second expedition follow.
ed. in which he was accompanied by
the First and Second Battalions Of the
Pennsylvania Regiment. At Fort Lou.
don tabout twelve miles west Of Cham.
bersburgl he was met by n runner from
Colonel Bradstreet. who had penetrated
with force to Presque Isle (City OF Erie
nowl who advised Col. Bouquet that he
had granted peace to all the Indians
between Lake Erie and the Ohio. Bou'
quet was at the head of the Provincial
soldiery of Pennsylvania, and he and
they we're determined upon conquer.
ed peace. lie, therefore, forwarded the
dispatch to Gov Penn, with the remark,
that such a peace with no satisfaction
insisted upon, would fix an indelible
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