Martha Henry

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Wife Martha Henry ¹

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         Father: Frederick Henry (      -      ) 2 3
         Mother: [Unk] Wentzel (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Wife - Martha Henry

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About 1778, their home, six miles from Greensburg, Pennsylvania, was attacked by a band of marauding Indians, and her mother and the two youngest children were killed. Peter, Martha and a younger child were taken prisoners by the natives, but they had proceeded only a short distance when the youngest child began to cry and was immediately tomahawked. The Indians carried Peter and Martha to the point afterward known as Brady's Bend, where they went into camp. The redoubtable Captain Brady, at the head of a party of scouts, had followed the Indians, attacked them in the night while asleep, and only one of the band escaped to tell the tale. Brady took the children to Fort Pitt, and subsequently delivered them safely to their father.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1036.

2 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1186.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1036, 1064.