Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Hugh Brady and Hannah McCormick


Husband Hugh Brady 1 2 3 4 5 

           Born: 1709 4
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         Father: Rev. Nicholas Brady, D.D. (1659-1726) 6
         Mother: Letitia Synge (      -      ) 4


       Marriage: 1730 7

Wife Hannah McCormick 3 4 5 

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Children
1 M Capt. John Brady 1 7 9 

            AKA: Capt. John Sharp 8
           Born: 1733 - Delaware 1 7 10
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           Died: 11 Apr 1779 - Wolf Run
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         Spouse: Mary Quigley (1735-1783) 7 8 9
           Marr: Abt 1755

2 M Samuel Brady 1 7 11 

           Born: 1734 - Cumberland Co, PA 7
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           Died: 1808 or 1811 - East Mahoning Twp, Indiana Co, PA 7 11
         Buried:  - Gilgal Cemetery, East Mahoning Twp, Indiana Co, PA

         Spouse: Jane Simonton (      -Bef 1805) 7

3 M Rev. Joseph Brady 1 7 

           Born: Abt 1735
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         Spouse: Mary Carnahan (      -      ) 7

4 M Hugh Brady 2 3 7 12 

           Born: 1740 3
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         Spouse: Jane Young (      -      ) 3 7

5 M William Brady 1 7 

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         Spouse: [Unk] Ferguson (      -      ) 7

6 M Ebenezer Brady 1 7 

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         Spouse: Jane Irvine (      -      ) 7

7 M James Brady 1 13 

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         Buried:  - Gilgal Cemetery, East Mahoning Twp, Indiana Co, PA

         Spouse: Rebecca Young (      -      ) 14

8 F Margaret Brady 1 5 

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         Spouse: Archibald Hanna (      -1794) 5 7

9 F Mary Brady 1 5 

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         Spouse: Samuel Hanna (      -Abt 1789) 7

General Notes: Husband - Hugh Brady


He emigrated from the North of Ireland about the year 1730, and settled first in the State of Delaware, but soon after in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, on the banks of the Conodoguinet Creek, within five miles of where Shippensburg later stood. [HCC 1886, 292]

Tradition says that he and his wife came from the forks of the Delaware and settled in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, about 1734. They were the parents of nine children. [HWC 1906 ii, 92]

He came from Enniskillen, Ireland, and was one of the first settlers in what is now Hopewell township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.

He emigrated to America from Enniskille, County Cork, Ireland, locating first at the falls or forks of the Delaware river, and thence removing to near Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. Their homestead was in Hopewell township, Cumberland County, five miles from Shippensburg, and there Hugh Brady spent most of his mature years.
There is a record in the Pennsylvania Archives, 3d Series, Volume I, page 26: "Hugh Brady, of Chester County, had warranted to him 150 acres of land in Paxtang township, on Feb. 22, 1733." Early records of Hugh Brady in Cumberland county are found in Record Book "A," Volume I, page 18, Carlisle, Pa.: "Release of Hugh Brady to Richard Peters dated 7 Oct., 1748. In consideration of £25 sold and released all that tract of land with the improvements and buildings situate in Hopewell township, Lancaster County, adjoining John McCuin and Robert Simonton containing 200 acres more or less, 50 acres of which were granted to Thomas Woods by warrant 19 Mch., 1744, and by said Woods to Hugh Brady 30 Aug., 1745, and the other 150 acres were warranted to Hugh Brady 6th Oct., 1748." On page 33 of the same volume we find a bill of sale, Hugh Brady of Hopewell to Francis Campbell and David Megaw of Shippensburg, storekeepers, dated 3 Apr., 1753:
"In consideration of £12. 10s. and 3d. set over and deliver to Campbell and Megaw 1 bay mare 8 years old branded 'W. E.' on the near buttocks, one sorrel mare, white faced, 7 years old, branded 'S' on the shoulder, and a red cow with calf 3 yrs. old a flecked red cow & white cow 4 yrs. old and 2 yearling calves. To have and to hold &c.
"Hugh Brady.
"Witnesses:
"David Summerall
"Robt. Simonton "
In Book "B," Volume I, page 213, is a deed of Robert Simonton to William Starrett dated April 19, 1768, which in the description mentions Hugh Brady as one of the adjoiners. [HJC 1917 II, 124]

He was a pewholder in the Middle Spring Presbyterian Church as early as 1754-a direct testimony to the religious habit of his life. He and his wife are buried in the lower graveyard at Middle Spring, where the people of Hopewell organized a Presbyterian Church in 1738, and doubtless the Brady family were among its most loyal supporters. The old log building, 35 feet square, stood near the gate of the graveyard and on the bank of the stream, and the early settlers buried their dead around the building. The oldest stone bears date 1770. When the descendants of Hugh Brady visited this graveyard in 1909 they found one hundred and four marked graves and two thousand unmarked. A wall of limestone was erected around this burial place prior to 1805, and helped keep it in a good state of preservation. The Bradys intended to erect a fitting memorial to their early ancestors in the old cemetery.
Hugh Brady's farm lay two miles south of the Blue or Kittochtinny mountains. and near Conodoguinet creek. Two hundred acres were granted to Hugh Brady in 1744 and 1745, and some years later two of his sons, Joseph and Hugh, came into possession of the western part of this grant, which they disposed of in 1794. The old log house stood within sight of the creek, and afforded a secure hiding place from the Indians. The greater portion went to decay and was supplanted by a frame dwelling house, but the living room long remained unchanged, its low ceiling and small windows bearing testimony to the architecture of the day. The southern wide quaint stone chimney, built by Hugh Brady, was also a relic of those early days.

General Notes: Wife - Hannah McCormick


She was a Scotchwoman.

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Sources

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 462.

12 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 296.

13 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 404, 472.

14 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 126.

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