David Brainerd
Missionary in colonial North America · Lived 1718 to 1747 · aged 29
David Brainerd was an American Presbyterian minister and missionary to the Native Americans among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. Missionaries such as William Carey and Jim Elliot, and Brainerd's cousin, the Second Great Awakening evangelist James Brainerd Taylor (1801-1829) cite Brainerd as inspiration.
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Lived 1718 to 1747 · aged 29