Brady's Bend was named for Captain Samuel Brady (1756-1795), a famed frontier scout and the subject of many legends. Near here in June 1779, in what was then Seneca territory, he led a force seeking to redress the killing of a settler and her four children and the taking of two children as prisoners. The force surrounded a party of seven Indians, apparently both Seneca and Munsee, killed their leader, a Munsee warrior, and freed the two children.