Samuel Brady (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Captain Samuel Brady (1756-1795) was a frontier scout 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. He died on December 25, 1795, in Short Creek, Virginia (now in the state of West Virginia). 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.