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

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

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

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

The Genealogy of the Brainerd-Brainard Family in America 1649-1908 by Lucy Abigail Brainard. Pp. 43, Vol I; He was a farmer in Haddam, commanded a military company in the same place. He was appointed Ensign in Haddam, Oct., 1735, and Captain of the 3d Company, 7th Regiment, May 1745. He worked in the quarry on Haddam Neck.d in Haddam, Sept. 25, 1767, died in 68th year.

1. Gideon BRAINERD b. 2 Mar 1729, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 25 Dec 1801, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
2. Eliakim BRAINERD b. 17 Mar 1731, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 18 Jan 1815, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; bur. 1815, Old Burying Gnd, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
3. Joseph BRAINERD b. 13 Jan 1734, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
4. Sarah BRAINERD b. 10 Aug 1736, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
5. Jesse BRAINERD b. 27 Sep 1738, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
6. 3. Sarah BRAINERD b. 5 Apr 1741, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 26 Sep 1819, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
7. Deborah BRAINERD b. 28 Oct 1743, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. Abt 19 Aug 1809, Cromwell, Middlesex, Connecticut.
8. Rebekah BRAINERD b. 6 Apr 1746, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 5 Aug 1818, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
9. Heber BRAINERD b. Abt 1748, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.

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

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:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/source_files/brainerd.htm

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.

BIOGRAPHY: Biographical article that establishes David's mother's maiden name as Hobart and not Mason as some other articles had done (as noted in David's notes).

Copied from The National Cyclop?a of American Biography... New York: James T. White & Company, 1892. Vol. II.

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

1. James BRAINERD b. 25 Mar 1696, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 2 Oct 1776, Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; bur. Oct 1776, CT, USA.
2. Deborah BRAINERD b. 3 Apr 1698, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, Connecticut; d. 1745, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
3. 6. Gideon BRAINERD b. 4 Mar 1699, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 25 Sep 1767, Haddam Neck, Middlesex, , Connecticut; bur. 1767, Old Burying Gnd, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
4. Mary BRAINERD b. 11 Jan 1701, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 21 Jun 1750, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.
5. Hannah BRAINERD b. 7 Mar 1703, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 16 May 1790, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.
6. Abijah BRAINERD b. 26 Nov 1705, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. Sep 1782, Haddam Neck, Middlesex, Connecticut.
7. Daniel BRAINERD b. 2 Aug 1707, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 14 Dec 1774.
8. Mehitable BRAINERD b. 13 Jul 1709, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 1790, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.
9. Sarah BRAINERD b. 2 May 1713, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 1772, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
10. Jeptha BRAINERD b. 29 Oct 1718, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, Connecticut; d. Young.
11. Zechariah BRAINERD b. 31 Jul 1715, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, Connecticut; d. Young, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
12. Othniel BRAINERD b. 2 Jun 1720, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, Connecticut; d. 7 Sep 1724, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
13. Elizabeth BRAINERD b. 28 Sep 1723, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, Connecticut; d. 9 Feb 1742, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
14. Heber BRAINERD b. 18 Apr 1725, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, Connecticut; d. 5 Feb 1803, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.

1. 7. Sarah SELDEN b. 20 Jul 1712, , Lyme, New London, Connecticut; c. 20 Jul 1712, Lyme, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 4 Jun 1770, Haddam Neck, Middlesex, , Connecticut; bur. Old Burying Gnd, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
2. Hannah SELDEN b. 1686, Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts; d. 17 Mar 1742.