Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Capt. John Brady and Mary Quigley


Husband Capt. John Brady 1 2 3 

            AKA: Capt. John Sharp 4
           Born: 1733 - Delaware 1 2 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 11 Apr 1779 - Wolf Run
         Buried: 


         Father: Hugh Brady (1709-      ) 1 6 7 8 9
         Mother: Hannah McCormick (      -      ) 7 8 9


       Marriage: Abt 1755

Wife Mary Quigley 2 3 4 

           Born: 16 Aug 1735 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 20 Oct 1783 4
         Buried:  - Lewisburg, Union Co, PA


         Father: James Quigley (      -1782) 4
         Mother: Janet [Unk] (      -      ) 4


Children
1 M Capt. Samuel Brady 2 5 10 11 

           Born: 1756 - Shippensburg, Cumberland Co, PA 11
     Christened: 
           Died: 25 Dec 1795 - near West Liberty, Ohio Co, VA 5
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Drusilla Swearingen (      -      ) 12
           Marr: 1784 5

2 M James Brady 1 5 13 

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 8 Aug 1778 13
 Cause of Death: Killed by indians
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

3 M William Brady 2 

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: in infancy
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

4 M John Brady 1 2 5 

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Jane McCall (      -      ) 2

5 F Mary Brady 2 5 

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Capt. William Gray (      -      ) 2

6 M William P. Brady 2 5 

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Jane Cook (      -      ) 2

7 M Gen. Hugh Brady 1 14 

           Born: 29 Jul 1768 - Huntingdon, Huntingdon Co, PA 14
     Christened: 
           Died: 15 Apr 1851 - Detroit, Wayne Co, MI 15
         Buried: 
         Status: Twin

         Spouse: Sarah Evans (      -      ) 16

8 F Jane Brady 2 5 

           Born: 29 Jul 1768 - Huntingdon, Huntingdon Co, PA 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Status: Twin

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

9 M Robert Quigly Brady 1 2 5 

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Mary Cook (      -      ) 2

10 F Agnes Brady 2 

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: in infancy
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

11 F Hannah Brady 2 5 

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Maj. Robert Gray (      -      ) 2

12 M Joseph Brady 2 

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: in infancy
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

13 F Liberty Brady 2 5 

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Maj. William Dewart (      -      ) 2

General Notes: Husband - Capt. John Brady


He was born in Delaware, but came with his father when they founded
their home in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. In the quiet preceding the storm of the French and Indian war he followed the usual vocation of frontier life, the primeval forest yearly bowing to the settler's ax. John and his brother Hugh, we are told, studied surveying. His personal appearance has come down to us by tradition; he was six feet high, well-formed, had coal black hair, hazel eyes and was of rather dark complexion.

Tempestuous waves of trouble rolled in upon the settlements of this (Cumberland?) valley in the wake of Braddock's defeat. During this critical period John Brady was very active against the Indians, and, as a reward for his services, was appointed a captain in the provincial lines, which, at that time, was a mark of no small distinction. In the Pennsylvania Gazette of April 5, 1764, there is an account of the Indian depredations in the Carlisle region on the 20th, 21st and 22d of March, "killing people, burning houses, and making captives;" adding, "Capts. 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 neighborhood." John Brady's life was eventful. He served in the French and Indian war; went as a private with Col. Armstrong from Cumberland County in his expedition against Kittanning; was commissioned July 19, 1763, as captain of the Second Battalion of the Pennsylvania Regiment; fought in the Revolution; was commissioned (October 12, 1776,) one of the captains of the Twelfth Regiment; was wounded at Brandywine (where his sons, Samuel and John, the latter only sixteen, who was wounded, fought by his side) and, after leaving Cumberland County, became one of the most prominent pioneers and defenders of the West Branch Valley.
When he left Shippensburg he located himself at the Standing Stone, a celebrated Indian town at the confluence of Standing Stone Creek and the Juniata River. The present town of Huntingdon stands in part on the site of Standing Stone. From thence he removed to the west branch of the Susquehanna River, opposite the spot on which Lewisburg or Derrstown, in Union County, stands. He also resided near Muncy, where he erected, in the spring of 1776, the semi-fortified residence known afterward as "Fort Brady," near which place he was shot from his horse and killed by the Indians on April 11, 1779, a centenary celebration of which event was held at Muncy in 1879, at which time a monument was erected to his memory.

General Notes: Wife - Mary Quigley

from Hopewell Twp, Cumberland Co, PA

She was of Scotch-Irish extraction.

After the death of her husband, she returned to her father's house, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in May, 1779, and remained until the following October, when she returned to Buffalo valley.

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Sources

1 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 292.

2 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 125.

3 Belle McKinney Hays Swope, History of the Families of McKinney-Brady-Quigley (Chambersburg, PA: Franklin Repository Printery, 1905), Pg 187.

4 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 800.

5 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 472.

6 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 67.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 92.

8 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 124.

9 Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies (New York, 1900), Pg 55.

10 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 118.

11 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 291.

12 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 483.

13 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 123.

14 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 257, 472.

15 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 257.

16 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 766.

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