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

Married twice

MILITARY: Officer in the French and Indian War, a soldier with General Wolfe at the capture of Quebec

The date of the early settlement of Haddam Neck is involved in obscurity, but it is supposed to be about 1710 or '12, by the following persons, some of them settling later than others: William BRAINERD, his wife Sarah BIDWELL, and their children; James BRAINERD, jr., his wife Anne; Thomas SELDEN, his wife Sarah, and their children; Sylvester DUDLEY; Gideon GOFF jr., and perhaps his father; Jabez BROOKS Esq., and perhaps Thomas BROOKS; Dr. Joshua and Deacon Gideon ARNOLD, their sisters, and possibly their father, John; --- CONE; Robert CHAPMAN; Benajah CLARK, and perhaps Deacon Ebenezer SMITH and William MARKHAM; --- STOCKING., William BRAINERD, the fifth child of Daniel and Hannah (SPENCER) BRAINERD, one of the original proprietors of Haddam, married Sarah BIDWELL, December 13th 1698, and built his house between the foot of Quarry Hill and the house of the late Deacon Cyprian S. BRAINERD. Their children were:, married Esther ----., daughter of Jabez and Hannah (CLARK) BRAINERD, and settled in BRAINERD District in Haddam.5. (Rev.) Chiliab, graduated at Yale, minister in Eastbury, town of Glastonbury.siah sen., twice married. He built his house on Quarry Hill in 1737. The house was torn down in 1883. He served in two expeditions to Canada; was with Gen. Wolfe, at the capture of Quebec; and also served in the Revolutionary war.here the house of Oliver B. ARNOLD now stands.
Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/town_hist/haddam_ct_history.htm

1. Sarah BRAINERD b. 21 Mar 1699, E. Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.
2. William BRAINERD b. 20 Mar 1701, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; c. 20 Mar 1702, Haddam Twp, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 18 Mar 1735/1736.
3. Hannah BRAINERD b. 1704.
4. Samuel BRAINERD b. 4 Jul 1?06, Haddam Neck, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 15 Feb 1787, Haddam Neck, Middlesex, Connecticut.
5. Chiliab BRAINERD b. 10 Oct 1708, Haddam Neck, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 1 Jan 1738/1739, Old Burying Ground, Glastonbury, Connecticut.
6. 4. Josiah BRAINERD b. 4 May 1711, Haddam Neck, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 8 Jul 1792, Haddam Neck, Middlesex, Connecticut.
7. Nathan BRAINERD b. 4 Nov 1713, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 24 Sep 1776, Middle Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.

1. 5. Hannah SPENCER b. 8 Apr 1705, ; d. 24 Jul 1787.

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. 7. Dorothy BRAINERD b. 23 Feb 1710, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; d. 27 Feb 1754.
3. 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.