David Brainerd


David Brainerd
Orders
Ordination1744
Personal details
Born20 April 1718
Died9 October 1747
Northampton, Province of Massachusetts Bay
NationalityAmerican
DenominationPresbyterian
OccupationMinister, missionary

David Brainerd (April 20, 1718 – October 9, 1747) was an American Presbyterian minister and missionary to the Native Americans among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. Missionaries such as William Carey and Jim Elliot, and Brainerd's cousin, the Second Great Awakening evangelist James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829) cite Brainerd as inspiration.