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• Birth	24 May 1681	Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut
  Christened	7 Mar 1682	Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Buried	May 1727	Center Church Gd, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
  Died	24 May 1727	Hartford, Hartford, , Connecticut
  Person ID	I2143	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	04 May 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Daniel BRAINERD, b. 1641, Braintree, Essex, Eng.
  Mother	Hannah SPENCER, b. 15 Apr 1653, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut
  Family ID	F460	Group Sheet
  Family	Dorothy HOBART, b. 21 Aug 1679, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts
  Married	1 Oct 1707	Of, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut
  Children	> 1. Hezekiah BRAINERD, b. 26 Oct 1708, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut > 2. Dorothy BRAINERD, b. 23 Feb 1710, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut > 3. Nehemiah BRAINERD, b. 20 Apr 1712, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut > 4. Jerusha BRAINERD, b. 21 Apr 1714, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut > 5. Martha BRAINERD, b. 1 Sep 1716, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut   6. David BRAINERD, b. 20 Apr 1718, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut > 7. John BRAINERD, b. 28 Feb 1720, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut   8. Elizabeth BRAINERD, b. 5 Oct 1722, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut   9. Israel BRAINERD, b. 7 Jun 1725, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut
  Family ID	F346	Group Sheet

• Notes

  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.