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Those parts of the following History that are included between brackets thus [ ], are the words of the Publisher, Mr. Jonathan Edwards, Minister of Northampton, in New England, for the most part summarily representing the chief things contained in Mr. Brainerd's Diary. The rest is the Account that he gives of himself, in his private writings, in his own words.

AN EXTRACT

OF THE

LIFE

OF THE LATE

REV. DAVID BRAINERD.

PART I.

From his birth, to the time he began to devote himself to the study of Divinity.

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 he was about nine years of age, was the worshipful Hezekiah Brainerd, Esq. one of his majesty's council for that colony, and the son of Daniel Brainerd, Esq. a justice of the peace, and a deacon of the church in Haddam. His mother was Mrs. Dorothy Hobart, daughter to the Rev. Mr. Jeremiah Hobart, who preached awhile at Topsfield, and then removed to Hemptstead, on Long-Island, and afterwards came and settled in the work of the ministry at Haddam; where he died in the 85th year of his age: of which it is remarkable, that he went to the public worship in the forenoon, and died in his chair between meetings.

Mr. David Brainerd, was the third son of his parents. They had five sons and four daughters. Their eldest son is Hezekiah Brainerd, Esq. a jus

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