Peter Henry

Who was Peter Henry?

Peter Henry and his sister Margaret were survivors of capture by marauding Indians in 1779 and were rescued by Captain Samuel Brady at what is now called Brady's Bend, Pennsylvania.

Information from the History of Butler County provides more detail. When Peter Henry was fourteen years of age, their home, six miles from Greensburg, Pennsylvania, was attacked by a band of Indians, and his mother and the two youngest children were killed. Peter and two younger children were taken prisoners by the savages, but they had proceeded only a short distance when the youngest child began to cry and was immediately tomahawked. The Indians carried Peter and his sister to the point since known as Brady's Bend, where they went into camp. The redoubtable Captain Brady, at the head of a party of scouts, had followed the savages, attacked them in the night while asleep, and only one of the band escaped to tell the tale. Brady took the children to Fort Pitt, and subsequently delivered them safe to their father.

The Bradys Bend Historical Society provides an account from their sources.