1769 - 1823

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• Suffix	(twin)
  Birth	13 Jul 1769	Haddam Neck, Middlesex, Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Died	19 May 1823	Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA
  Person ID	I3607	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Elisha BRAINERD, b. 7 Mar 1733, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut
  Mother	Martha HUBBARD, b. 18 Apr 1737
  Family ID	F782	Group Sheet
  Family	Rachel Ackley BRAINERD, b. 29 Jan 1770, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut
  Married	19 Mar 1789	Haddam Neck, Middlesex, Connecticut
  Children	> 1. John R. BRAINARD, b. 1789 > 2. Selinda BRAINARD, b. 16 Mar 1791, Middletown,, Connecticut > 3. Nancy BRAINARD, b. 1 Feb 1794 > 4. Amos BRAINARD, Jr., b. 1795, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut > 5. Demming BRAINARD, b. 1798 > 6. Julia Selden BRAINARD   7. Timothy BRAINARD, b. 1801 > 8. Alvah H. BRAINARD, b. 1807 > 9. Hiram Ackley BRAINARD, b. 4 Oct 1808, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut > 10. Sylvester BRAINARD, b. 1809   11. Emily BRAINARD, b. 4 Jun 1811, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut
  Family ID	F729	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Descendant of Daniel Brainard. MIGRATION: Came to Newburgh, Ohio when nearly 50 years of age. OCCUPATION: Farmer and shoemaker. MARRIAGE: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/source_files/haddam_non-bailey_marriages.htm MARRIAGE: The information listed below was found in a file folder in the Town Clerk's Office, Town of Haddam. It is titled "Marriage Records of Dec. Ezra Brainerd, Justice of Peace". A note in the upper left corner reads as follows: "transferred from orig. sheets found by Rev. William James in attic of T. Holmquist house on Ague Springs Rd." Ague Springs Road is in Haddam Neck. MARRIAGE: 19 Mar 1789 Amos BRAINERD, Jr. & Rachel BRAINERD, both of Haddam Neck DEATH: Crushed by a falling tree during a storm while he was out in the fields with his oxen. OBIT: Name: Brainard, Amos Date: 1823 Source: Cemetery record; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #009. Notes: age 51. Harvard Grove Cemetery Cleveland, Ohio

• Sources

  [S64] [BOOK] Pioneer Families of Cleveland, Ohio 1796-1840, Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham, (Evangelical Publishing House; 1914), SC929.377132 W632p., Page 153-154. "Pioneer Families of Cleveland, Ohio 1796-1840" Amos Brainard of Middlesex County, Conn., one of the earliest settlers of Newburgh, made his western venture when nearly 50 years of age. His wife was Rachel Brainard, daughter of Dudley and Mindwell Ackley Brainard of Haddam, Conn., and a cousin of Amos. Amos Brainard was a farmer and shoemaker, before coming to Newburgh, and lived on a farm in the latter place, toiling early and late to clear it of the timber and heavy undergrowth that covered it. Mr. and Mrs. Brainard had 13 children, 11 of whom reached maturity and all but one of these married and had families of their own, most of them living in Newburgh. Mr. Brainard met with a sudden and violent death, one day, in 1823. He was in a- field at work with a yoke of oxen, when a furious storm of wind and rain broke upon him, and while hastening back to his dwelling, a falling tree crushed out his life. His wife, standing in the door of her home, and anxiously watching his return, witnessed the sad accident that left her a widow with four of her family of children still of a tender age. She was to undergo another shock and a grief of the same character five years later, when her son Timothy, aged 27, was killed by the caving in of a portion of the Erie Canal upon which he was working. She was a very superior woman, of a fine heritage, which was passed on to several of her children. She died in 1848, aged 78 years. The children of Amos and Rachel Brainard: John R. Brainard, b. 1789; m. in 1812, Lucinda Goff, widow of Joshua Brainard. Salinda Brainard, b. 1791; m. Richard Bailey, who died 1813. She married 2nd, Enos Cochran, died 1823; and 3rd, Justus Hamilton Owen of Newburgh. of Newburgh, O. She died 1859, aged 68. Nancy Brainard, b. 1793; m. in 1818, Demos Brainard, son of Amos and Martha Aiken Brainard of Brooklyn, O. Amos Brainard, b. 1795; m. in 1826, Lydia Thompson, dau. of Adam and Lydia Thompson. Demming Brainard, b. 1798; m. Esther Jones. He died 1860. Julia Selden Brainard, m. Silas Alvah H. Brainard, b. 1807; m. Melissa Owen, sister of Silas Owen d. 1865. Timothy Brainard, b. 1801; died suddenly. Hiram Brainard, b. 1808; m. Elizabeth Hotal. Sylvester Brainard, b. 1809; removed to Michigan. Emily Brainard, b. 1811; m. Syl vester Dudley Goff, son of Guernsey and Asenath Brainard Goff.