David Brainerd

David Brainerd (1718-47) served as an early American missionary to the Native Americans of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, 1742-46. He spent his final months in the home of Jonathan Edwards at Northampton, Massachusetts, before succumbing to consumption. Brainerd’s Journal was published in 1746; Edward’s Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd appeared in 1749. The Account was republished in Edinburgh in 1765, an edition that was widely circulated among the evangelical Calvinists and which had great influence upon the pioneer Baptist missionary, William Carey.