BRAINERD, DAVID (17181747)

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BRAINERD, DAVID (17181747) , American missionary among the Indians, was born at Haddam, Connecticut, on the loth of April 1718. He was orphaned at fourteen, and studied for nearly three years (17391742) at Yale. He then prepared for the ministry, being licensed to preach in 1742, and early in 1743 decided to devote himself to missionary

work

WORK

among the Indians. Supported by the Scottish " Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge," he worked first at Kaunaumeek, an Indian

settlement

SETTLEMENT
SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

about 20 M. from Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and subsequently, until his death, among the

Delaware

DELAWARE

Indians in

Pennsylvania

PENNSYLVANIA
PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

(near Easton) and New

Jersey

JERSEY
JERSEY, EARLS OF

(near Cranbury). His heroic and self-denying labours, both for the spiritual and for the temporal welfare of the Indians, wore out a naturally feeble constitution, and on the 19th of October 1747 he died at the

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of his friend, Jonathan Edwards, in

Northampton

, Massachusetts.
His Journal was published in two parts in 1946 by the Scottish Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; and in 1749, at Boston, Jonathan Edwards published An Account of the Life of the

Late

LATE

Rev. David Brainerd, chiefly taken from his own Diary and other Private Writings, which has become a missionary classic. A new edition, with the Journal and Brainerd's letters embodied, was published by Sereno E. Dwight at New Haven in 1822; and in 1884 was published what is substantially another edition, The Memoirs of David Brainerd, edited by James M. Sherwood.

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