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Brainerd, David ()
New England missionary to Indian tribes of the middle colonies
Born to a farming family in Haddam, Connecticut, Brainerd soon turned his aspirations to the clergy and a life of study.
The early death of his parents, combined with a naturally melancholy personality, caused him to be morose and to fixate on the brevity of life, so that his religious life was characterized by prolonged depressions punctuated by ecstatic experiences of God.
He began to study for the ministry at Yale College in During his first year he showed signs of the tuberculosis that was to end his life prematurely. During the following year, the New Light preaching of George Whitefield and other itinerants such as Gilbert Tennent and James Davenport gained many adherents at the college, including Brainerd, and he became involved in a separate church founded by students.
In November he was reported as saying that one of the local ministers who was a college tutor had “no more grace than a c