Samuel Brady

Samuel Brady
Early illustration of Captain Samuel Brady, circa 18th-19th centuries
Born	May 5, 1756, Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Province of Pennsylvania (British Royal Colony), British North America, British Empire, present-day Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Maryland
Died	December 25, 1795 (aged 39) Short Creek, Ohio County, Virginia, present-day Brooke County, West Virginia
Cause of death	pleurisy
Nationality	American
Other names	Sam Brady, Captain Samuel Brady, Vengeful Indian Fighter
Occupation	soldier, colonial militia officer, scout, Indian fighter
Known for	Being a French and Indian War and Revolutionary War soldier, frontier scout, and a notorious Indian fighter, on the early American frontier
Parent(s)	John Brady and Mary Quigley
Relatives	James Brady (brother), William Brady (brother), John Brady (brother), Mary Brady (sister), William Penn Brady (brother), Hugh Brady (twin brother), Jane Brady (twin sister), Robert Quigley Brady (brother), Agnes Brady (sister), Hannah Brady (sister), Joseph Brady (brother)

Captain Samuel Brady (1756–1795) was a frontier scout, notorious Indian fighter, and the subject of many legends, in the history of western Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. He is best known for jumping across a gorge over the Cuyahoga River to escape pursuing Indians in what is present day Kent, Ohio. This jump is still remembered as "Brady's leap".

Samuel Brady was born on May 5, 1756, in Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. His father was Capt. John Brady, who was born in 1733 near Newark, Delaware and who died April 11, 1779 near Muncy, Pennsylvania in an Indian attack. His mother was Mary Quigley Brady, who was born, on August 16, 1735, in Hopewell Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and died October 20, 1783 in Muncy, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. Capt. John Brady and Mary Quigley Brady had thirteen children, three of whom died in infancy. Their children were Captain Samuel Brady, born 1756, James Brady, born 1758, William Brady, born 1760 and died in infancy, John Brady, born March 18, 1761, Mary Brady (Gray), born April 22, 1764, William Penn Brady, born August 16, 1766, General Hugh Brady, twin, born July 27, 1768, Jane Brady, twin, born July 27, 1768, Robert Quigley Brady, born September 12, 1770, Agnes Brady, born February 14, 1773 and died November 24, 1773, Hannah Brady (Gray), born December 3, 1774, Joseph Brady, born in August 1777 and died in infancy and Liberty Brady (Dewart), born August 9, 1778.

Samuel's Scotch Irish maternal grandfather, James Quigley, was born in about 1710 and came to America from Ireland in 1730. He settled on 400 acres (1.6 km²) of frontier land, in what is today, Hopewell township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, close to present day Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. He built his wilderness home of logs close to the banks of Conodoguinet Creek. A bridge later built there caused the location of the Quigley homestead on Conodoguinet Creek to be later called "Quigley's Bridge", where generations of Quigleys continued to live long thereafter.