Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- JONATHAN EDWARDS'S PREFACE
- Dedication
- THE DIARY OF DAVID BRAINERD
- I From his Birth, and during his Preparation for the Ministry
- II His Experience and Religious Exercises until the Time he was Licensed to Preach
- III From the Time of his Appointment to his Entering on the Work of the Mission
- IV From the Time of his Examination to his first Entrance on the Business of his Mission
- V From his first Beginning to Instruct the Indians at Kaunaumeek to his Ordination
- VI His Removal to Crossweeksung, where he had his most Remarkable Success
- VII His Return to Susquehanna, and Last Illness
I - From his Birth, and during his Preparation for the Ministry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- JONATHAN EDWARDS'S PREFACE
- Dedication
- THE DIARY OF DAVID BRAINERD
- I From his Birth, and during his Preparation for the Ministry
- II His Experience and Religious Exercises until the Time he was Licensed to Preach
- III From the Time of his Appointment to his Entering on the Work of the Mission
- IV From the Time of his Examination to his first Entrance on the Business of his Mission
- V From his first Beginning to Instruct the Indians at Kaunaumeek to his Ordination
- VI His Removal to Crossweeksung, where he had his most Remarkable Success
- VII His Return to Susquehanna, and Last Illness
Summary
[Mr. David Brainerd was born April 20, 1718, at Haddam, a town belonging to the county of Hartford, in the colony of Connecticut, New England. His father, who died when this his son was about nine years of age, was the worshipful Hezekiah Brainerd, Esquire, an assistant, or one of his Majesty's council for that colony, and the son of Daniel Brainerd, Esquire, a Justice of the Peace, and a deacon of the Church of Christ in Haddam. His mother was Mrs. Dorothy Hobart, daughter to the Rev. Jeremiah Hobart, who preached a while at Topsfield, and then removed to Hampstead on Long Island, and afterwards removed from Hampstead, by reason of numbers turning Quakers, and many others being so irreligious that they would do nothing towards the support of the ministry, and came and settled in the work of the ministry at Haddam; where he died in the 85th year of his age: of whom it is remarkable, that he went to the public worship in the forenoon, and died in his chair between meetings. And this reverend gentleman was son of the Rev. Peter Hobart, who was, first, minister of the Gospel at Hingham, in the county of Norfolk in England; and, by reason of the persecution of the Puritans, removed with his family to New England, and was settled in the ministry at Hingham in the Massachusetts. He had five sons, viz., Joshua, Jeremiah, Gershom, Japheth, and Nehemiah.
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- The Diary of David Brainerd , pp. 1 - 33Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010