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GREATSITE.COM Presents  1749 An Account of the Life of ... [BRAINERD, David] EDWARDS, Jonathan. An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd, Minister of the Gospel, Missionary to the Indians, from the Honourable Society in Scotland, or the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, and Pastor of a Church of Christian Indians in New-Jersey… Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, And Other Private Writings, Written for His Own Use; And Now Published. Boston: D. Henchman, 1749.
[2], xii, [18] List of Subscribers, 316, [2] pp. publisher’s ads.
Contemporary sheep. Boards rubbed. Some age-toning and foxing but overall very good. Occasional dampstaining. Last leaf of the List of Subscribers has a small hole affecting some letters.
A biography of the famed young missionary to the Indians adapted from his holograph diary by the renowned New England Divine, Jonathan Edwards.
Expelled from Yale (which now has a building named for him) for sympathizing with the Whitefield Revival (and for remarking that a particular tutor had “no more grace than this chair”), Brainerd was nevertheless successful as a missionary to many Indian tribes in the Massachusetts / New York border region and into New Jersey. He died at the age of 29 in the home of Edwards, whose daughter he was engaged to marry.
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