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  1. David Brainerd (April 20, 1718 – October 9, 1747) was an American Presbyterian minister and missionary to the Native Americans among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. Missionaries such as William Carey and John Eliot, and Brainerd's cousin, the Second Great Awakening evangelist James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829) cite Brainerd as ...

  2. David Brainerd was an early 18th century American missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey.

  3. David Brainerd was a Presbyterian missionary to the Seneca and Delaware Indians of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania (1744–47). He gained posthumous fame through the publication of his diary by Jonathan Edwards, the Massachusetts religious philosopher.

  4. Oct 24, 2022 · Though a short life, David Brainerd stands in the pantheon of believers mightily used by God. In 1742, fueled by revival zeal, Brainerd was expelled from Yale for his remark that a tutor in the college had no more grace than a chair.

  5. May 29, 2014 · April 20, 1718 = born in Haddam, CT, to Hezekiah and Dorothy Hobart Mason Brainerd (the widow of Daniel Mason) 1727 = Hezekiah Brainerd dies. 1732 = Dorothy Brainerd dies. July 12, 1739 = David Brainerd’s conversion experience.

  6. In 1749 Edwards published An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd, drawn from Brainerd’s extensive diaries and supplemented by Edwards’s own commentary. Edwards sought to portray Brainerd as a model of Christian saintliness who manifested his faith in good works and self-sacrifice, expurgating many passages that ...

  7. The Life and Ministry of David Brainerd. by Ed Reese (1928-2015). Used with permission. Born: April 20, 1718 Haddam, Conn. Died: October 9, 1747 Northampton, Mass. Life Span: 29 years, 5 months, 19 days.

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