An Account of the Life... of David Brainerd... Missionary to the Indians...and Pastor of a Church of Christian Indians in New Jersey

Boston: Printed and sold by D. Henchman, 1749 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition of this prime Americana classic, Brainerd had remarkable success with numerous Indian tribes, and left us a diary account that is unequalled. Pp. [2], xii, [18, list of subscribers], 316, [2, ads]. Somewhat later half morocco and marbled boards. Contemporary owner's signature (John Fullerton) to top border of Preface. Upper outer hinges starting, text browned, spotted and stained, upper corner of title leaf repaired with some loss. A very good copy. This work presents a biography of the famed Indian missionary adapted from his own diary, by the renowned New England divine, Jonathan Edwards. Expelled from Yale for sympathizing with the Whitefield revival and for remarking that a college tutor had "no more grace than this chair," Brainerd was nevertheless successful as a missionary to various Indian tribes in the Massachusetts/New York border region and in New Jersey. He died at the age of twenty-nine in the home of Edwards, whose daughter he was engaged to marry. [Evans 6311; Howes I: E-56; Howes II: E-56; Larned: 2992; Sabin 21927]..