Family History Notes and Photos by Bob Mesenbrink

The following is a story that I added to one of my trees on Ancestry. I thought by posting it here, I'd get a few more readers. David Brady was my 3rd great grandfather.Another post on David Brady is at  http://mesenbrinkphotos.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-twenty-children-of-david-brady.html . The information on David Brady's origin is sketchy. He is said to have been born in 1785 in Sussex county, New Jersey. When he died on July 12, 1878, he was 93 years, 1 month and 14 days of age according to his death certificate. Based on that, he was born May 28, 1785. His ages from the 1850, 1860 and 1870 censuses, when you consider the actual enumeration dates, confirm that birth year exactly. His obituary gives his birthplace as Sussex county, New York (not New Jersey). But there is no Sussex county in New York, so this is clearly an error. A biography in Glover's 1906 county history states his birthplace as Sussex county, New Jersey. Otherwise, there isn't a lot of evide