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Emigrant ancestor, Daniel Brainerd, was born 1641 in Braintree, Essex Co., England. He came to America at the age of eight and lived in Hartford, Connecticut until 1662 when he bought land in Haddam and made it his permanent home. He married Hannah Spencer (ca. 1641- 1691) ca. 1664. They were the parents of eight children.

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The story of the eighteenth century preacher David Brainerd has been told in dozens of popular biographies, articles, and short essays. Almost without exception, these works are celebratory, even hagiographic in nature, making him into a kind of Protestant saint, a model for generations of missionaries. This book will be the first scholarly biography of Brainerd, drawing on everything from town records and published sermons to hand-written fragments to tell the story not only of Brainerd's life, but of his legend.