Peter Henry (1764–1858) and his sister Margaret were survivors of capture by Native Americans 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 (1895) 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 pa