Brady

From the county histories, on Brady township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1876, including the spelling of the day and the errors the scanner made. It has not been rewritten, summarised or added to.

Brady township was named in honor of Hugh Brady, a distinguished General of the United States Army, who is said to have been born within the walls of Standing Stone Fort. He entered the army at an early age and received various well-merited promotions until he attained the high rank he held at the time of his death. Other members of the Brady family lived in the vicinity of Huntingdon before the Revolutionary war. The father of the famous scout and spy, Capt. Samuel Brady, resided at the mouth of Crooked creek, on the opposite side of the river. During the war all of the Bradys removed to the West Branch of the Susquehanna. The township is bounded on the northeast and southeast by Mifflin county, on the south and southwest by Union, on the west by Henderson, and on the northwest by Henderson and Barree. It has Jack's mountain on the east, Standing Stone mountain in the centre and the Juniata river on the south. Its principal village is Mill Creek, on the Pennsylvania railroad and canal, laid out October 12th,1848,for the proprietors, Messrs. On the stream of Mill creek, from which the village takes its name, is Mill Creek Furnace, out of blast for a number of years. The place has considerable trade from Kishacoquillas valley and the adjoining townships of Union and Henderson.Milton Scott Lytle, History of Huntingdon County (Lancaster: William H. Roy, 1876) · character 620,662 of the scanned text

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From the county histories, on Brady township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the errors the scanner made. It has not been rewritten, summarised or added to.

In Kishacoquillas Valley, Brady township. 22 The old name of a branch of Mill Creek. 23 The lower end of the * Mill Creek" farm, 24 The old Plowman farm. % Peter Van Devander, from Virginia, settled upon the Robley farm, in Brady township, and there reared a large family. Among the sons were Peter, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and John. Daughters married respectively , , Armitage, Peter Swoope, , , Shaver, and Samuel Hampson. HUNTINGDON, THE WARM SPRINGS. 45 CHAPTER X. Huntingdon, The Warm Springs, Jack's Narrows, Fort Shirley, Black Log Valley, The Clugage Family, and the Shades of Death in 1775. THE following is copied from a manuscript diary of Rev. Philip Fithian, who left his home at Greenwich, N. J., May 9,1775, for a tour through Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, and ata Presbytery held at West Conococheague Church (near Mercersburg, Pa.) was commissioned to visit Central Pennsylvania as a supply to the scattered Presbyterian Churches.J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883) · character 305,722 of the scanned text

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