- Hugh Brady
Infobox Military Person
name=Hugh Brady
born=July 29 ,1768
died=April 15 ,1851
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placeofbirth=Standingstone, Pennsylvania
placeofdeath=Detroit, Michigan
allegiance=United States of America
branch=United States Army
serviceyears=1792–95; 1799–c. 1801; 1812–51
rank=Major General
unit=
commands=22nd Infantry Regiment ,
battles=Northwest Indian War ,War of 1812 ,Black Hawk War
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laterwork=Hugh Brady (
July 29 ,1768 –April 15 ,1851 ) was an American general fromPennsylvania . He served in theNorthwest Indian War under GeneralAnthony Wayne , and during theWar of 1812 . Following the War of 1812, Brady remained in the military, eventually rising to the rank of major general and taking command of the garrison atDetroit . He also marginally participated in the 1832Black Hawk War . Hugh Brady died an accidental death in 1851 when he was thrown from a horse-drawncarriage .Early life
Hugh Brady was born
July 29 ,1768 , one of six sons and four daughters by John and Mary Brady, in Standingstone,Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania .Farmer, Silas. "History of Detroit and Wayne County and Early Michigan: A Chronological Cylopedia of the Past and Present", ( [http://books.google.com/books?id=n65QMYIanNkC&pg=PA1078&dq=%22Hugh+Brady%22+General&ie=ISO-8859-1 Google Books] ), S. Farmer & Co. for Munsell & Co.: 1890, p. 1078. Retrieved10 October 2007 .] Meginness, John Franklin. "Otzinachson: Or, a History of the West Branch Valley of the Susquehanna" ( [http://books.google.com/books?id=XaZF9e3w5fkC&pg=PR14&vq=Hugh+Brady&dq=%22Hugh+Brady%22+REvolutionary+War#PPA337,M1 Google Books] ), H.B. Ashmead: 1857, pp. 337–43. Retrieved10 October 2007 .] Brady's father, Captain John Brady, was killed in 1776, during theAmerican Revolution in a battle with Native Americans. In May 1779, the family moved to Brady's maternal grandfather's home in Cumberland County and stayed there until October 1779. After a harsh winter, Brady spent the ensuing few years working the fields in the area with his brothers, often armed in case of conflict with Native Americans. Brady's mother died in 1783, and his oldest siblings began to marry. Hugh Brady moved with his brotherSamuel Brady toWashington County, Pennsylvania . Samuel married and Hugh stayed with his brother until 1792, when he began his military career.The Brady and Quigley families
Hugh's father, Capt. John Brady, was born in 1733 near Newark,
Delaware and who died April 11, 1779 nearMuncy, 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 of 1777 and died in infancy and Liberty Brady (Dewart), born August 9, 1778. [Mrs. Belle McKinney Hays Swope, History of the Families of McKinney-Brady-Quigley, Newville, Pennsylvania., Chambersburg, Pennsylvania., Franklin repository printery, 1905, p. 140, et seq. A copy of this genealogy is held by the State Library of Pennsylvania, Call number 929.1 Sw77.]The Quigleys
Hugh's Scotch-Irish maternal grandfather, James Quigley, was born in about 1710 and came to America from Ireland in 1730. He settled on four hundred acres 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.
The Scotch-Irish were the earliest settlers on the Pennsylvania frontier of the early 1700s. As one author puts it.
The Cumberland Valley was dotted with Scotch-Irish settlements throughout its entire area, a district which had become almost exclusively the possession of this racial group, with whom were mingled small numbers of English and German settlers constituting perhaps ten percent of the population. It was well adapted to farming, and the Scotch-Irish, in this early period, were mostly farmers, but later they developed a marked aptitude for trade and the professions. [Wayland F. Dunaway, "The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania"; University of North Carolina Press, 1944, p. 60.]
As pioneers, they were the advance guard blazing the trail through the wilderness far out on the frontier. They were the first line of defense against the savages, bearing the brunt of the Indian wars, and courageously enduring the hardships of pioneer life as the typical frontiersmen of provincial Pennsylvania. Step by step they had advanced along a perilous path, surmounting whatever difficulties arose, moving ever farther into the wilderness and reclaiming it to the new civilization. [Dunaway, p.70.]
Little is known of James' wife, Jeanette, except that she was likely of Scottish descent and probably was born in Hopewell Township in 1725. However, according to Brady family historian, Belle Swope, "We are assured she was a devoted wife, a loving mother, and a wise counselor, or she would not have given to the world such brave and illustrious children." [Swope, p. 140] In 1738 the log
Middle Spring Presbyterian Church was erected three miles from their homestead, of which James and Jeanette Quigley became faithful members and in which they along with some of their children came to be buried in its old graveyard. James Quigley had to be and was ever vigilant to keep hostile Indians from killing his family and burning his home – a fate that befell many of his neighbors in those early days on the Pennsylvania frontier. In addition to successfully keeping his home and family safe, on March 25, 1756 James Quigley was commissioned ensign in the Cumberland County Colonial Rangers. He served as at private in Revolutionary War. He died in 1782. [Swope, p.140.] They had six children, who were all born on their Hopewell Township homestead, namely, John Quigley, born in August of 1731, Samuel Quigley, born in June of 1733, Mary Quigley (who was the wife of Major John Brady, Hugh's mother), born August 16, 1735, Agnes Quigley, born in March of 1737 or 1738, Martha Quigley, born in July of 1741 and Robert Quigley, born in 1744, who married Mary Jacob. Robert Quigley eventually ended up living on the Quigley Homestead, at Quigley Bridge, Hopewell Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Robert Quigley and Mary Quigley Brady remained very close throughout their lives.The Bradys
Military career
Early career
Brady was first inducted into the military with a commission from
George Washington as anensign in General "Mad" Anthony Wayne's army in 1792 and placed in a rifle company under the command of Captain John Crawford. By 1794, Brady rose to the rank oflieutenant , and fought with Wayne in theNorthwest Indian War . Brady participated in the decisiveBattle of Fallen Timbers , which resulted in theTreaty of Greenville .Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed. "Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin", ( [http://books.google.com/books?id=m-M7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA236&dq=Hugh+Brady+fallen+timbers#PPA236,M1 Google Books] ), Vol. VII (1876), The Society: 1908, p. 236. Retrieved10 October 2007 .] Following the war, in 1796, he left the military, albeit temporarily, and returned toVirginia to visit the widow of his brother, CaptainSamuel Brady .Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. "The Centennial Memorial of the Presbytery of Carlisle" ( [http://books.google.com/books?id=l0QRAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA356&dq=%22Hugh+Brady%22+REvolutionary+War&ie=ISO-8859-1#PPA356,M1 Google Books] ), Vol. II — Biographical, Meyers Printing and Publishing House: 1889, pp. 356–57. Retrieved10 October 2007 .]His brother had settled in Ohio County, Virginia and after visiting his widow there, Hugh Brady decided to return home to see his family in
Sunbury, Pennsylvania . He arrived there, after further stops in Virginia andKentucky , in 1797. He remained in Sunbury until, during the winter of 1798–99 he was appointed a captain in a militia raised during the administration of PresidentJohn Adams . The militia was disbanded less than two years later and Brady went about improving a plot of land, with his brother William, about 50 miles fromPittsburgh along theMahoning River . Brady married Sarah Wallace and remained on the plot until 1807.War of 1812
In 1807 Brady moved to
Northumberland County, Pennsylvania and remained there until 1812. In 1812 he received a commission from PresidentThomas Jefferson and once again rejoined the ranks of U.S. military officers. He was given command of the22nd Infantry Regiment and saw action at theBattle of Chippawa and theBattle of Lundy's Lane , where he was severely wounded. The wounds ended his service during theWar of 1812 .Moore, Charles. "History of Michigan", ( [http://books.google.com/books?id=FR3aHb2JSTAC&pg=PA1105&dq=Hugh+Brady+General&ie=ISO-8859-1#PPA1105,M1 Google Books] ), The Lewis Publishing Co.: 1915, pp. 1105–06. Retrieved11 October 2007 ] Brady would remain in the military after the war, until his death in 1851.In Michigan
In 1819 Brady was transferred to the 2nd Infantry Regiment based at
Sackett's Harbor, New York . As a colonel, in 1822, Brady and five companies of the 2nd Infantry established Fort Brady on the site of the 1751 French stockadeFort Repentigny , along theSt. Mary's River at Sault Ste. Marie nearLake Superior inMichigan Territory . The outpost became an important defense structure in the upper Michigan frontier. In 1857, most of the soldiers at Fort Brady were withdrawn and transferred to Fort Snelling, in Minnesota.Laurence, Mary Leefe. "Daughter of the Regiment: Memoirs of a Childhood in the Frontier Army, 1878-1898", ( [http://books.google.com/books?id=wVubfeeuI9EC&pg=PA177&dq=Hugh+brady+second+infantry+regiment&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=POdnjXVMi8Qsp6UBsMhdyIx7_Kc Google Books] ), University of Nebraska Press: 1999, (ISBN 0803279884), p. 177. Retrieved11 October 2007 .] Brady rose in rank to brigadier general later that same year, after ten years service. Brady had command of the garrison atDetroit by 1828.In late April 1832 the
Black Hawk War began betweenSauk war chief Black Hawk'sBritish Band and the Illinois state and Michigan Territorial Militia. Brady left Michigan Territorial Capital forFort Winnebago , near present-dayPortage, Wisconsin . Brady was Commandant of the Department of the Upper Great Lakes at the time and was accompanied by one aide. Brady, having seen combat in the 1790s with Wayne and during the War of 1812, was of the opinion that the Sauk could be easily defeated with only a few companies of soldiers. Brady was given command of two companies and set out to rendevous with GeneralHenry Atkinson , overall commander, in northern Illinois.Much of Brady's overall involvement in this conflict was peripheral. On the afternoon of
June 8 ,1832 ,Henry Dodge and his men, includingJames W. Stephenson , proceeded toKellogg's Grove and buried the victims of theSt. Vrain massacre . That night Stephenson returned toGalena, Illinois , while Dodge moved to Hickory Point where he remained overnight.Stevens, Frank. " [http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.3418:21.lincoln The Black Hawk War] ", Abraham Lincoln Digitization Project, "Northern Illinois University". Originally published: 1903, Section 181-182, Chapter XXV, Battle of Pecatonica. Retrieved14 August 2007 .] The next morning Dodge set out forDixon's Ferry , where he camped with General Brady.Trask, Kerry A. " [http://books.google.com/books?id=8ZIXkMBBLw0C&pg=PP1&ots=jRiFPrivzb&dq=trask+black+hawk&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=Mr9Nkt-ZA7lk3eIEPG4pyQmLZjo Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart of America] ", (Google Books ), Henry Holt Company, New York: 2007, pp. 233-237, 243, (ISBN 0805077588). Retrieved14 August 2007 .] OnJune 11 , Dodge escorted Brady to the mouth of the Fox River to confer with Atkinson. Dodge left the conference with clear authority from Atkinson to deal with the violence in the mining region. Hugh Brady set out for Fort Hamilton, with the brigade commanded by Alexander Posey and his two companies of regulars, onJune 20 . Brady was eventually given a larger force but was stricken withdysentery in July and did not participate further in the war.Barnett, LeRoy and Rosentreter, Roger L. "Michigan's Early Military Forces: A Roster and History of Troops Activated Prior to the American Civil War" ( [http://books.google.com/books?id=nAlQ6HwMlKYC&pg=PA156&dq=%22Hugh+Brady%22+Black+Hawk+War&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=mnCGbM3leFkcQYjhfreK9u-MuMo Google Books] ), Wayne State UniversityPress: 2003, p. 156, (ISBN 0814330819). Retrieved10 October 2007 .] Five years after the Black Hawk War, in 1837, Brady was given command of Military Department No. 7, headquartered in Detroit. He remained in the position for seven years, during which time he was in command over the removal of several Native American tribes as well as an incident known as the "Patriot War ". When theU.S.-Mexican War broke out, Brady was too old to join the troops in the field but he assisted by helping to raise troops and equipment and shipping it to the war zone. In 1848, three years before his death, Brady was promoted to the rank of major general.Late life and death
Hugh Brady died an accidental death in Detroit on
April 15 ,1851 . Brady was at the helm of a horse-drawncarriage , when the vehicle became entangled intelegraph wires. The wires, lowered for repairs, caused the horses to panic. In the panic, Brady was thrown from the carriage and fatally injured. He died in the presence of his pastor, Dr. (Rev.) George Duffield.Notes
External links
* [http://bradyheritage.org/famous.htm Brady Family Heritage Association]
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