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BRAINERD, DAVID (1718—1747)

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BRAINERD, See also:DAVID (1718—1747) , See also:American missionary among the See also:Indians, was See also:born at Haddam, See also:Connecticut, on the loth of See also:April 1718. He was orphaned at fourteen, and studied for nearly three years (1739—1742) at Yale. He then prepared for the See also:ministry, being licensed to preach in 1742, and See also:early in 1743 decided to devote himself to missionary See also:work among the Indians. Supported by the Scottish " Society for Promoting See also:Christian Knowledge," he worked first at Kaunaumeek, an See also:Indian See also:settlement about 20 M. from See also:Stockbridge, See also:Massachusetts, and subsequently, until his See also:death, among the See also:Delaware Indians in See also:Pennsylvania (near See also:Easton) and New See also:Jersey (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 See also:October 1747 he died at the See also:house of his friend, See also:Jonathan See also:Edwards, in See also:Northampton, Massachusetts. His See also:Journal was published in two parts in 1946 by the Scottish Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; and in 1749, at See also:Boston, Jonathan Edwards published An See also:Account of the See also:Life of the See also:Late Rev. David Brainerd, chiefly taken from his own See also: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. See also:Dwight at New Haven in 1822; and in 1884 was published what is substantially another edition, The See also:Memoirs of David Brainerd, edited by See also:James M. See also:Sherwood.

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