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    Eliot, and Brainerd's cousin, the Second Great Awakening evangelist James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829) cite Brainerd as inspiration. David Brainerd was born...
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  • The Life of David Brainerd, also called The Life and Diary of David Brainerd, is a biography of David Brainerd by evangelical theologian Jonathan Edwards...
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    books, such as The End for Which God Created the World and The Life of David Brainerd, which inspired thousands of missionaries throughout the 19th century...
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    David Brainerd Spooner (February 7, 1879 - January 30, 1925) was an American archaeologist and linguist. He was born at Vernon, Vermont. Spooner graduated...
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  • Brainerd is a surname. Notable people with the name include: David Brainerd (1718–1747), Christian missionary to Native Americans, brother of John Eleanor...
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    time he read Jonathan Edwards' Account of the Life of the Late Rev. David Brainerd and the journals of the explorer James Cook, and became concerned with...
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    Fruit of Affliction in the Lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper, and David Brainerd (Crossway, 2001). Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ (Crossway, 2001,...
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    supream / Contemptuous [...]. Jonathan Edwards; Sereno Edwards Dwight; David Brainerd (1830). The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life ....
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    Spangenberg was also informed of David Brainerd's visit to Shamokin in May. Shikellamy reported that [The Reverend Brainerd] had assembled the Delawares in...
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    was named for William Reed, an early settler. In May 1745, missionary David Brainerd traveled to Duncan Island to preach to the Native Americans who lived...
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