Excerpt from An Extract of the Life of the Late Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians I 5 l noon, and died in his chair between Mr David Brainerd, was the third parents. They had five fons arid four daughte Their eldeit ion is Hezekiah Brainerd, Efq; juitice of the peace, and for feveral years pat reprefentative of the town ofhaddam, in the; neral all'embly officonnee'ticut colony; the icco was the Reverend Nehemiah Brainerd, a wort L minilter at Eaitbury in Conneaicut, who'di of a confumptionbnov. To, 1742; the fourth Mr. John Brainerd, who fucceeds his brot} David, as mifiionary to the Indians, and paitor the fame church of Chrifiian Indians in Ne Jerfey: and the fifth was Ifrael, late itudent Yale-college in new-haven, who died fince l brother David - Mrs. Dorothy Brainerd havi lived feveral years a widow, died when her i David was about 14 years of age fo that ini youth he was left both fatherlefs and motherle [what account he has given of himfelf, ' and I own life, may he teen in what folloivsj' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.