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David was the sixth of nine children born into the home of Hezekiah and Dorothy (Mason) Brainerd. Details of his childhood are scanty, but he grew up in a country house just above the west bank of the Connecticut River, two miles outside of Haddam. His father was a country squire, a local justice of the peace, and a Christian, as was his mother. His father died when he was nine and the death of his mother in March, 1732 brought additional great grief to 14 year old David, who was by then seeking to find what conversion was all about. From ages 15 to 19 he lived with his sister Jerusha who had just married Samuel Spencer. In April, 1738, he returned to Haddam to live and to study with the pastor of his youth, Phineas Fiske. Brainerd soon became a serious student of the Bible, and ignored the other pleasures in which most young people were participating. Fiske died in the fall, and Brainerd, like Luther, continued desperately seeking peace with God. By February, 1739, he was setting aside whole days of secret fasting and almost incessant prayer as he strove for acceptance with God.

WILL:
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Will; 23 May 1727; Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT 33. Brainerd, Hezekiah, Haddam. Died 24 May 1727. Invt £2442-03-03. Taken 24 Jun 1727, by Joseph Arnold, Jared Spencer & Caleb Brainard. Will dated 23 May 1727.: I give to my eldest son a double portion of all my estate, to be injoyed by him when he comes to the age of 21 years of day of marriage, which shall first happen, excepting the lands I hereafter appoint to be sold. Item. To the rest of my children I give an equal proportion of my estate. Item. I give to my wife Dorothy 1/3 part of my moveable estate forever, and 1/3 part of my houseing and lands during her natural life and she to have her first choice. Item. I do appoint that my son Nehemiah be bred up to learing and fitted to be serviceable thereby. I do appoint my loveing wife Dorothy to be sole executrix of theis my last will, and I do desire her out of my whole estate to pay all my just debts. And also I do hereby fully impower her, for the bringing up of my sone Nehemiah to learning or other necessary uses, to sell the following parcells of land, viz., yt which I bought of Samuel Smith, and also that parcell of land I bought of William Spencer, and also that parcell of land that I have in partnership with my brother Caleb Brainerd., Elizabeth Wyllys.

Court Record, Page 160 - 4 July 1727: Will proven.nard, executrix of the last will and testament of Hezekiah Brainard, late of Haddam, not having fully perfected her account of executorship, and being decd., this Court do therefore grant letters of Adms. on sd. estate unto Hezekiah Brainard, son of the decd., with the will annexed. And the sd. Hezekiah Brainard became bound in the sum of £400.
Page 89 -- 28 April 1733: Hezekiah Brainard, eldest son of Hezekiah Brainard, moved to this Court that there may be a distribution according to the will; and this Court appoint Caleb Brainard, Elijah Brainard and Jared Spencer of Haddam to distribute the estate. Daniel Brainard, a minor, 15 years of age, and Martha Brainard, 17 years, chose their brother Hezekiah Brainard to be their guardian. And this Court appoint sd. Hezekiah Brainard to be guardian to 3 of the children, viz., John, age 13 years, Elizabeth 10, and Israel 8 years of age. Recog. £300.
See Dist. per File: 17 May 1733: Order to distribute to Hezekiah, to Nehemiah, to Dorothy Smith, to Jerusha Spencer, to Martha Brainard, to David, to John, to Elizabeth, and to Israel Brainard. By Caleb Brainard & Elijah Brainard.s Court that there was 300 acres of land granted by the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut to James Wadsworth, John Hall and Hezekiah Brainard, Esq., bounded south by the Litchfield line and every way else by commmon land, lying near the west line of the place called Torrington. Sd. Wadsworth hath sold his third part as undivided to Ebenezer Hill, Jr., Luke Hill, & Isaaaaac, and sd. Hall's part now belongs to his eldest son John Hall of Wallingofrd, and in the dist. of sd. Brainard's estate according to his last will his third part of sd. land fell to his son Israel Brainard, who is yet under age, who together with the othe owners of sd. land, viz., John Hall and the sd. Ebenezer, Luke & Isaac Hill, moves this court that James Wadsworth, Esq., and James Wadsworth, Jr., of Durham, might assist Hezekiah Brainard, guardian to sd. minor, to divide the sd. 300 acres of land by meets and bounds that each owner may know their part thereof.

1. 2. Hezekiah BRAINERD   b. 26 Oct 1708, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 14 Dec 1774.
2. 3. Dorothy BRAINERD   b. 23 Feb 1710, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 27 Feb 1754.
3. 4. Nehemiah BRAINERD   b. 20 Apr 1712, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
4. 5. Jerusha BRAINERD   b. 21 Apr 1714, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 13 Jul 1767, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
5. 6. Martha BRAINERD   b. 1 Sep 1716, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 11 Oct 1754, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; bur. Tater Hill.
6. 7. David BRAINERD   b. 20 Apr 1718, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 9 Oct 1747, Northampton,, Massachusetts.
7. 8. John BRAINERD   b. 28 Feb 1720, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 18 Mar 1781, Deerfield,, New Jersey.
8. 9. Elizabeth BRAINERD   b. 5 Oct 1722, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
9. 10. Israel BRAINERD   b. 7 Jun 1725, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 6 Jan 1748, New Haven,, Connecticut.

1. 11. Mary BRAINERD, [child]   b. 22 Jul 1732, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
2. 12. [child] BRAINERD   b. 31 May 1736, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
3. 13. Mary BRAINERD   b. 2 Sep 1737, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
4. 14. Dorothy BRAINERD   b. 10 Dec 1739, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
5. 15. Hezekiah BRAINERD   b. 28 Jul 1742, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
6. 16. David BRAINERD   b. 27 Nov 1748, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 1828, French Grant, Lawrence, Ohio.

1. 17. Mary SMITH   b. 23 Feb 1741, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 4 Mar 1781.
2. 18. James SMITH   b. 19 May 1738, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 11 Jan 1831, Harpersfield, Deleware, Ny.
3. 19. Jerusha SMITH   b. 25 Feb 1744, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 11 Oct 1811.
4. 20. Dorothy SMITH, [infant]   b. 29 Sep 1730, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 10 Oct 1730, Haddam, Middlesex Co., Connecticut.
5. 21. Dorothy SMITH   b. 11 Sep 1731, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
6. 22. David SMITH   b. 5 Oct 1733, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
7. 23. Anne SMITH   b. 19 Jan 1735, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
8. 24. Ester SMITH   b. 19 Mar 1739, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
9. 25. Hezekiah SMITH   b. 12 Feb 1745, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
10. 26. Susanna SMITH   b. 29 Mar 1748, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
11. 27. Nehemiah SMITH   b. 1754, Haddam, Middlesex Co., Connecticut; c. 14 Apr 1754, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.

Mentioned in his father's will -- see notes under Hezekiah (d: 24 May 1727)

1. 28. Nehemiah BRAINERD   b. Abt 1742, Eastbury (Buckingham),, Connecticut; d. 8 Nov 1807.

1. 29. Samuel SPENCER   b. 21 Jan 1734, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. Aug 1794, Wadesboro, , North Carolina.
2. 30. Dorothy SPENCER   b. 28 Apr 1735, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 25 May 1791, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
3. 31. Oliver SPENCER   b. 6 Oct 1736, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 22 Jan 1811, Columbus, , Ohio; bur. Wesley Chapel, Columbus, Ohio.
4. 32. Mehitabel SPENCER   b. 15 Jun 1738, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
5. 33. Asa SPENCER   b. 19 Jan 1739, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 29 Oct 1743.
6. 34. Jerusha SPENCER   b. 11 Sep 1741, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 5 Nov 1743.
7. 35. Rebecca SPENCER   b. 6 Apr 1743, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 3 Jul 1785, Millington.
8. 36. Luke SPENCER   b. 28 Jan 1746, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 30 Jun 1747.
9. 37. Mary SPENCER   b. 8 Jul 1745, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 2 May 1795, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
10. 38. David SPENCER   b. 22 Jan 1744, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.

1. 39. Martha SPENCER, [infant]   b. 8 May 1739, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 24 Feb 1740, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
2. 40. Martha SPENCER   b. Abt 1740, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 3 Mar 1796.
3. 41. Joseph SPENCER, MD   b. 22 Jul 1750, Of East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; c. 22 Jul 1750, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 11 May 1824, Vienna, , West Virginia.
4. 42. Hubbard SPENCER   b. 1742, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 1806, Canaan, , Vermont.
5. 43. Anna SPENCER   b. 30 Mar 1746, East Haddam, , Connecticut; c. 1746.
6. 44. Israel Brainard SPENCER   b. 10 Jul 1748, East Haddam, , Connecticut; c. 1748.
7. 45. Nehemiah SPENCER   b. 24 Dec 1752, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; c. 24 Dec 1752, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 1769.

BIOGRAPHY: HE DIED when still a young man. Only 29. But David Brainerd, a young Puritan who ministered to the Indians, was one of America's most influential missionaries. Though his life was brief, Brainerd's intense, passionate devotion to God affected countless Christians for many generations.

Born in 1718 to a devout Puritan family in Haddam, Connecticut, David Brainerd was orphaned at the age of 14. At twenty-one, swept up by the Great Awakening, he had a conversion experience and enrolled at Yale. Though an excellent student, Brainerd was dismissed in 1742 for criticizing one of the tutors, saying he had no more grace than a chair! Brainerd's regret over his rash statement could not secure his reinstatement. He ever afterward remained sensitive about criticism and maintaining Christian unity.

Brainerd studied with pastor Jedidiah Mills to prepare for the ministry and was soon licensed to preach. He went to work among the Indians at Kaunameek, about half way between Stockbridge, Massachusetts and Albany, New York. He diligently learned the Indian language but had little missionary success. So he moved on.

After being ordained by the Presbytery of New York, he began a new work among the Delaware Indians of Pennsylvania. Here too Brainerd saw little success in his ministry. Though often despondent because of his ineffective ministry, loneliness, and repeated illness brought on by tuberculosis, Brainerd determined to live wholly for God, whatever his outward success.

During 1745-1746, Brainerd traveled to minister to the Indians near Trenton, New Jersey and was amazed at the immediate responsiveness of the Indians to the Christian message. Over 100 Indians at a time came to him in the region. Brainerd poured out his life in ministry to these Indians, writing that he wanted "to burn out in one continual flame for God." He helped secure land for the Indians when theirs was threatened and soon constructed a church, school, carpenter's shop, and infirmary.
By the fall of 1746 Brainerd was increasingly coughing up blood. The famous theologian-pastor, Jonathan Edwards, brought him to his home in Northampton, MA. There David Brainerd spent hi?s last months, succumbing to tuberculosis on October 9, 1747.

Jonathan Edward's daughter Jerusha nursed Brainerd during his last illness, and a deep love developed between them. Edwards once overheard Brainerd tell Jerusha, "If I thought I should not see you, and be happy with you in another world, I could not bear to part with you. But we shall spend a happy eternity together." Jerusha contracted tuberculosis and died a few months after David, at the age of eighteen.

After Brainerd's death, Jonathan Edwards edited and published his diary, describing it as an example of a devotional life "most worthy of imitation." This diary was to influence many missionaries in future generations, including William Carey and Henry Martyn, who went to India and Jim Eliot, the twentieth century missionary who gave his life ministering to the Auca Indians.

Source: http://www.gospelcom.net/chi/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps079.shtml

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Missionary Heroes
Do you know how it is possible to live a very long life in a very few years? Perhaps you have heard the secret told in these words: "He liveth long, who liveth well." The young missionary to the Indians of long ago proved this to be true by his short, heroic, useful life.
In 1718 the little village of Haddam, Connecticut, [United States] was indeed a small one, but there, in April of that year, a baby was born who grew up into the man and the missionary that all who know anything of missions today, love to think about.


When David Brainerd was only nine, his father died, and five years later the death of his mother left him a lonely orphan. For a while he became a farmer's boy, and earned his living by his work out-of-doors. Then he went to live with a good minister, who gave him a chance to study, for the boy was very anxious to go to college. To Yale he went, while still quite young, and remained three years. There were no theological seminaries then, as now, to prepare young men to be ministers, but they studied with older ministers, and were made ready to preach in this way. Young Brainerd studied with different ministers, until the year 1742. Although he was then but twenty-four, he was considered ready to preach, and was sent out upon his chosen life-work as a missionary to the Indians.
At first, the intention was to send him to the tribes in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, but, because of some trouble among them there, the young missionary was sent instead to the Stockbridge Indians in Massachusetts.

Oh, but he had a hard time in the very beginning. You know, perhaps, that Solomon, the wise man, says that it is "good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth." It was certainly given to this young man to do this. No comfortable home was open to him, and he lived with a poor Scotchman, whose wife could hardly speak a word of English. Nothing better than a heap of straw laid upon some boards was provided for lodging, and as for food ? what do you think he had? We know exactly, for the missionary kept a journal, and in it he wrote ? "My diet is hasty pudding (mush), boiled corn, bread baked in the ashes, and sometimes a little meat and butter." He adds, "I live in a log house without any floor. My work is exceedingly hard and difficult. I travel on foot a mile and a half the worst of ways, almost daily, and back again, for I live so far from my Indians." He writes that the presence of God is what he wants, and he longs to "endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus." The Indians, from the first, seemed to be generally kind, and ready to listen, but, in the beginning, the work was slow.

The young missionary's heart was troubled for his poor red men, because the Dutch claimed their lands, and threatened to drive them off. They seemed to hate him because he tried to teach the Indians the Way of Life. At this time there was but a single person near with whom he could talk English. This person was a young Indian with eighteen letters in his last name, which was far enough from being "English." You may do your best at pronouncing it. It was "Wauwaumpequennaunt." Fortunately his first name was John!

The exposure and hardships of these days brought on illness from which the missionary suffered all through his brief life. He tells in his journal of spending a day in labour to get something for his horse to eat, after getting a horse, but it seems as if he had little use of it, for he was often without bread for days together, because unable to find his horse in the woods to go after it. He was so weak that he needed something besides boiled corn, but had to go or send, ten or fifteen miles, to get bread of any kind. If he got any considerable quantity at a time, it was often sour and moldy before he could eat it all.

He did not write complainingly of all this, but he did make a joyful entry one day, giving thanks to God for His great goodness, after he had been allowed to bestow in charitable uses, to supply great needs of others, a sum of over one hundred pounds New England money, in the course of fifteen months. It was truly, to him, "More blessed to give than to receive." He was thankful, he said, to be a steward to distribute what really belonged to God.

After two years' labour among the Stockbridge Indians, Mr. Brainerd went to New Jersey, his red brothers parting from him sorrowfully. The commissioners unexpectedly sent him to the Delaware Forks Indians. This meant that he must return to settle up affairs in Massachusetts and go back again to the new field. The long rides must be taken on horseback, the nights spent in the woods, wrapped in a greatcoat, and lying upon the ground. The missionary had flattering offers of pulpits in large churches where he would have had the comforts of life, but he steadfastly refused to leave his beloved Indians.
In the midst of difficulties and hardships he gladly toiled on. Traveling about as he did, he was often in peril of his life along the dangerous ways. On one trip to visit the Susquehanna Indians, the missionary's horse hung a leg over the rocks of the rough way, and fell under him. It was a narrow escape from death, but he was not hurt, though the poor horse's leg was broken, and, being thirty miles from any house, he had to kill the suffering animal and go the rest of the way on foot.

The last place of heroic service was in New Jersey, at a place called Crossweeksung. Here the missionary was gladly received, and spent two busy and fruitful years, preaching to the red men, visiting them in their wigwams, comforting and helping them in every way, being their beloved friend and counselor at all times. At last he became so weak that he could not go on. A church and school being established, the way was made easier for another.

Hoping to gain strength to return to his red brothers, David Brainerd went to New England for rest, and was received gladly into the home of Rev. Jonathan Edwards. Here he failed very rapidly, but his brave spirit was so full of joy that his face shone as with the light of heaven. He said, "My work is done." He died, October 9, 1747, at the age of twenty-nine.
He opened the way for others to serve his Indians, and his life has helped many, and has sent ot?ers into the field through all these years since the young hero was called and crowned. The story of his life influenced William Carey, Samuel Marsden and Henry Martyn to become missionaries. Through these, David Brainerd spoke to India, to New Zealand and to Persia.

Copied from Fifty Missionary Heroes Every Boy and Girl Should Know by Julia H. Johnston. New York: Fleming Revell Co., 1913.

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David was the sixth of nine children born into the home of Hezekiah and Dorothy (Mason) Brainerd. Details of his childhood are scanty, but he grew up in a country house just above the west bank of the Connecticut River, two miles outside of Haddam. His father was a country squire, a local justice of the peace, and a Christian, as was his mother. His father died when he was nine and the death of his mother in March, 1732 brought additional great grief to 14 year old David, who was by then seeking to find what conversion was all about. From ages 15 to 19 he lived with his sister Jerusha who had just married Samuel Spencer. In April, 1738, he returned to Haddam to live and to study with the pastor of his youth, Phineas Fiske. Brainerd soon became a serious student of the Bible, and ignored the other pleasures in which most young people were participating. Fiske died in the fall, and Brainerd, like Luther, continued desperately seeking peace with God. By February, 1739, he was setting aside whole days of secret fasting and almost incessant prayer as he strove for acceptance with God.

Source: http://www.wholesomewords.org/missions/biobrainerd.html

John BRAINERD, David's younger brother, took his place in the Indian Mission, and carried on the work he began, and was hardly inferior to his elder brother in the great qualities which go to make up the missionary character.

1. 46. Sophia BRAINERD, [child]   b. 11 Aug 1753; d. 8 Sep 1758.
2. 47. Mary BRAINERD   b. 18 Jul 1755.
3. 48. David BRAINERD, [infant]   b. 11 Apr 1757; d. 11 Sep 1758.

1. 49. Sophia BRAINERD   b. 15 Nov 1772.
2. 50. Elijah BRAINERD   b. 1773.
3. 51. BRAINERD   b. 2 Jan 1778.
4. 52. Hannah BRAINERD   b. 3 Dec 1782.
5. 53. Dolly BRAINERD   b. 7 Jul 1786.
6. 54. David BRAINERD   b. 15 Jan 1791, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 23 Jun 1872, Hanging Rock, Lawrence, Ohio.

1. 55. Hamson ARNOLD   b. 1791; c. Jan 1791, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
2. 56. Jared ARNOLD   b. 21 Feb 1774, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; c. Apr 1774, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 6 Aug 1845.
3. 57. Susannah ARNOLD   b. 1773; c. 23 Feb 1773, Killingsworth, Middlesex, Connecticut.
4. 58. Simon ARNOLD   b. 18 Jul 1778, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; c. Nov 1778, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 16 Oct 1867, Wickliffe, , Ohio.
5. 59. Joseph ARNOLD   b. 1773, ; d. 12 Jan 1823.
6. 60. Candice ARNOLD   b. 10 Mar 1770, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; c. 23 Feb 1773, Killingsworth, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 5 Jan 1849.
7. 61. Simon ARNOLD   b. 1773; c. 23 Feb 1773, Killingsworth, Middlesex, Connecticut.
8. 62. Laura ARNOLD   b. 1791; c. Abt Jan 1791, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
9. 63. Mary ARNOLD   b. 1773; c. 23 Feb 1773, Killingsworth, Middlesex, Connecticut.
10. 64. Justus ARNOLD   b. 1791; c. Jan 1791, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
11. 65. Olive ARNOLD   b. 11 Apr 1776, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; c. 1776.

1. 66. Hubbard SMITH   b. Oct 1767, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. SPRING 1821, Harpersfield, Deleware, Ny.
2. 67. Fredrick SMITH   b. 1 Mar 1760, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; c. May 1766; d. 17 Jul 1852.
3. 68. James (Capt) SMITH   b. 25 Aug 1762, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 2 Aug 1844.
4. 69. Alice SMITH   b. 1766; c. May 1766, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
5. 70. Mary SMITH   b. 1771; c. Jun 1771, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
6. 71. Catherine SMITH   b. 1774; c. Oct 1774, Hadda?, Middlesex, Connecticut.
7. 72. Polly SMITH   b. 1774; c. Oct 1774, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
8. 73. Nehemiah SMITH   b. 1778; c. Nov 1778, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.

1. 74. Frederick BRAINERD   b. 24 Jan 1763, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
2. 75. Olive BRAINERD   b. 5 Jul 1764, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
3. 76. Dolly BRAINERD, [infant]   b. 24 Apr 1766, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 4 Aug 1766, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
4. 77. Dolly BRAINERD   b. 24 Jul 1767, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
5. 78. Ezra BRAINERD   b. 11 May 1769, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
6. 79. Lucy BRAINERD   b. 13 Aug 1771, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
7. 80. Israel BRAINERD   b. 14 Sep 1772, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
8. 81. David BRAINERD   b. 17 Jan 1775, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
9. 82. Joseph Spencer BRAINERD   b. 7 Dec 1776, Chatham, , Connecticut; d. 1817.
10. 83. Calvin BRAINERD   b. 23 Sep 1778, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
11. 84. child BRAINERD, [infant]   b. Dec 1780, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. Dec 1780, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
12. 85. Jerusha BRAINERD, [infant]   b. 10 Mar 1783, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 18 Mar 1783, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
13. 86. Clarissa BRAINERD   b. 24 Mar 1788, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.

1. 87. Anna BRAINERD   b. 14 Aug 1764.
2. 88. Elizabeth BRAINERD   b. 11 Apr 1766.
3. 89. Amelia BRAINERD   b. 2 Mar 1768; d. Nov 1796.
4. 90. Nehemiah BRAINERD   b. 7 Jun 1770.
5. 91. John BRAINERD   b. 14 Dec 1772; d. 21 Jul 1841.
6. 92. Sarah BRAINERD   b. 13 Aug 1775.
7. 93. Jemima BRAINERD   b. 13 Sep 1777; d. 6 Jan 1851.
8. 94. David BRAINERD, [child]   b. 12 Sep 1780; d. 18 Oct 1786.
9. 95. Fyske BRAINERD, [twin]   b. 14 May 1783; d. 5 Jun 1826.
10. 96. Lydia BRAINERD, [twin]   b. 14 May 1783; d. Probably Willoughby,, Ohio.

1. 97. Mary SPENCER   b. 8 Jul 1745, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 2 May 1795, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
2. 98. Huldah SPENCER   b. 23 Mar 1784, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
3. 99. David Brainerd SPENCER   b. 22 Mar 1787, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
4. 100. Jerusha SPENCER   b. 13 Feb 1789, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
5. 101. Oliver Fuller SPENCER   b. Aft May 1790, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; c. 28 Jun 1795.

Camp Family Database: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genlady

1. 102. Willard CAMP   b. 16 Dec 1792, Whitestown, Oneida County, New York.
2. 103. Dolly CAMP   b. 1794, Whitestown, Oneida County, New York.
3. 104. Hezekiah CAMP   b. 30 Jun 1797, Whitestown, Oneida County, New York.
4. 105. David CAMP   b. 25 Apr 1802, Whitestown, Oneida County, New York.
5. 106. Sophia CAMP   b. 28 Oct 1805, Whitestown, Oneida County, New York.
6. 107. Ursula CAMP   b. 28 Oct 1805, Whitestown, Oneida County, New York; d. 5 Oct 1857, Des Moines, Iowa.
7. 108. Mary CAMP   b. Apr 1808, Whitestown, Oneida County, New York.

1. 109. Hezekiah Willard BRAINERD   b. 22 Mar 1817.
2. 110. Reuben David BRAINERD   b. 28 Jun 1820.
3. 111. Dolly Maria BRAINERD   b. 7 Oct 1821, Hanging Rock, Ohio; d. 29 May 1909.
4. 112. Isaac Austin BRAINERD   b. 20 May 1827.
5. 113. Henry Clark BRAINERD   b. 16 Aug 1829.
6. 114. John Spark BRAINERD   b. 19 Oct 1831, Hanging Rock, Lawrence, Ohio; d. 23 Aug 1899, Music, Carter, Kentucky.
7. 115. Eleanora Miranda BRAINERD   b. 19 Oct 1831, Hanging Rock, Lawrence, Ohio.
8. 116. Martha Ann BRAINERD   b. 27 Oct 1834.
9. 117. Mary Hannah BRAINERD   b. 25 Jan 1838.

1. 118. Joseph ARNOLD   b. 16 Sep 1811, ; d. 11 Jan 1884.
2. 119. Owen Brainerd ARNOLD   b. 11 Jul 1818, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 30 Aug 1900.
3. 120. Brainerd ARNOLD   b. 30 Apr 1813, ; d. 2 May 1813.
4. 121. Jared ARNOLD   b. 16 Aug 1809, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 6 Apr 1884.

1. 122. Mary S ARNOLD   b. 1807; c. 6 Dec 1807, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
2. 123. Jennette May ARNOLD   b. 1809; c. 5 Sep 1809, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 24 Sep 1896.
3. 124. Simon ARNOLD   b. 1813; c. 26 Mar 1813, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. Oct 1895.
4. 125. Susannah Clark ARNOLD   b. 1816; c. 16 Feb 1816, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 7 Jan 1819, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
5. 126. Mary Smith ARNOLD   b. Abt 1827, .
6. 127. Jenetke May ARNOLD   b. Abt 1825, .
7. 128. Susan Clarke ARNOLD   b. Abt 1823, .
8. 129. Simon ARNOLD   b. Abt 1821, .
9. 130. Martha Maria ARNOLD   b. 1815, ; c. 5 Dec 1815, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 20 Jun 1862.

1. 131. Nehemiah Brainerd PRATT  

1. 132. Daniel VENTRES  
2. 133. David VENTRES  
3. 134. Amelia VENTRES  

OCCUPATION: OCCUPATION: Ran a successful quarry business with his brother, John.

MARRIAGE: Never Married

OCCUPATION: Ran a successful quarry business with his brother, Nehemiah.

MARRIAGE: Never married.

OCCUPATION: OCCUPATION: Ran a successful quarry business with his brothers, Nehemiah and John.

MARRIAGE: Never married.