Fort Mcintosh. — Samuel Brady. 19 



stood on the southern verge of the plain, about twenty rods from the 

 bank of the river, with which it held communication, by means of 

 a covered way. This covered way, was constructed in a very sim- 

 ple but perfectly secure manner, by digging a ditch and covering it 

 with oaken palisades, sloping towards each other like a roof, and 

 then coated over with earth — an attempt had been made to dig a 

 well within the walls of the fortress, but the depth of earth and grav- 

 el to be passed before reaching water was so great, being about 

 one hundred and twenty feet, that it was abandoned, and this 

 mode adopted in its place. Water for the garrison was first pro- 

 cured from a spring at the back side of the plain, but several of 

 the men having been killed by the Indians while at the spring, 

 this mode of obtaining a supply was given up as too hazardous, 

 and the covered way was adopted in its place. Fort Mcintosh 

 was built during the war of the revolution, in the summer of the 

 year 1778, by a military force from Fort Pitt, under the command 

 of Gen. Mcintosh. It covered about an acre of ground; and was a 

 regularly stockaded fort, with four bastions, mounted with six field 

 pieces, from four to nine pounders ; one piece was placed in each 

 bastion, and two in the centre of the fort. It was twenty eight miles 

 below Fort Pitt, and at a favorable point for checking the incursions 

 of the Indians, or for sending out parties in pursuit, while on the 

 retreat from an inroad into the white settlements on the Monongahe- 

 la. It was for a number of years the rallying point for the border- 

 ers, when assembling for array, against the Indian towns on the 

 Muskingum and Scioto rivers. 



Samuel Brady. — I left Beavertown in the mail coach, at 1 1 A. M. 

 for Poland, in Trumbull County, Ohio, distant thirty eight miles. 

 Directly on leaving Bridgewater, and crossing a small stream, on a 

 neat bridge, we began to ascend a long steep hill, called " Brady's 

 Hill." It received its name from an interesting border adventure, 

 which occurred in " early times," near its base. Captain Samuel 

 Brady was one of that band of brave men, who lived, in the trying 

 days of the American Revolution, on the western borders, exposed 

 to all the horrors and dangers of Indian warfare, and whose names 

 should be perpetuated in history. He held a commission under the 

 United States, and for a part of that time commanded a company 

 of rangers, who traversed the forests, for the protection of the fron- 

 tiers. He was born in Shippensburgh, (Pa.) in the year 1758, and 

 removed probably when a boy, into the valley of the Monongahela. 



