He was engaged to be married to Jerusha Edwards, the daughter of the famous Great Awakening preacher Jonathan Edwards, but he died at the age of twenty-nine.

Why was David Brainerd kicked out of Yale?

In November 1741 he was reported as saying that one of the local ministers who was a college tutor had “no more grace than a chair.” Determined to snuff out the New Light among the students, the Yale Corporation, led by its rector, Thomas Clap, expelled Brainerd for refusing to make a public confession.

What denomination is Brainerd?

[U.S.]—died Oct. 9, 1747, Northampton, Mass.), Presbyterian missionary to the Seneca and Delaware Indians of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania (1744–47). He gained posthumous fame through the publication of his diary by Jonathan Edwards, the Massachusetts religious philosopher.