Edwards, Life of Brainerd, 1798

AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF MR. DAVID BRAINERD, MISSIONARY FROM THE SOCIETY FOR PROPAGATING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE, & PASTOR OF A CHURCH OF CHRISTIAN INDIANS IN NEW-JERSEY. PUBLISHED BY JONATHAN EDWARDS, A. M. WITH MR BRAINERD's PUBLIC JOURNAL TO THIS EDITION IS ADDED; MR BEATTY's MISSION To the westward of the Allegheny mountains. LONDON: PRINTED FOR R. OGLE, BOOKSELLER. 1798.
 
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David Brainerd, 1718 – 1747, was a Presbyterian missionary among the Delaware Indians in New Jersey. He died of tuberculosis. His biography, published by Jonathan Edwards, and endorsed by John Wesley, was an immediate success, and received enthusiastically for the next two and a half centuries by Christian readers and missionaries.
 
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