Person:Israel Brainerd (1)

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Israel Brainerd
b.7 Jun 1725 Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
d.6 Jan 1747/48 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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m. 1 Oct 1707
  1. Colonel Hezekiah Brainerd1708 - 1774
  2. Dorothy Brainerd1709/10 - 1754
  3. Rev. Nehemiah Brainerd1711/12 -
  4. Jerusha Brainerd1714 -
  5. Martha Brainerd1716 - 1754
  6. Rev. David Brainerd1718 - 1747
  7. Rev. John Brainerd1719/20 - 1781
  8. Elizabeth Brainerd1722 - 1773
  9. Israel Brainerd1725 - 1747/48
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Name[1] Israel Brainerd
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] 7 Jun 1725 Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Death[2][3] 6 Jan 1747/48 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Burial[2][3] Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

"Israel Brainerd, the youngest son and child of Hon. Hezekiah Brainerd, was a member of Yale College when his brother David was taken from his missionary labors by feebleness, and afterward by death. "This young gentleman." says President Edwards, "was an ingenious, serious, studious, and hopefully pious person. There appeared in him many qualities giving hope of his being a great blessing in his day. But it has pleased God, since the death of his brother, to take him away also." He died the following winter at New Haven, Conn., Jan. 6, 1748, of a nervous fever, after about a fortnight's illness, in the twenty-fourth year of his age. David Brainerd recommended to this brother, when he himself was in a dying state, a life of self-denial and devotedness to God, and an earnest endeavor to obtain much of God's spirit and gracious influence on his heart; representing how greatly ministers stand in need of them, and the unspeakable benefit of them from his own experience. Among many other expressions he said thus:

"When ministers feel these special gracious influences on their hearts, it wonderfully assists them to come at the consciences of men, and as it were to handle them; whereas without them, whatever reason and oratory we may make use of, we do but make use of stumps instead of hands." Memoirs, pp. 243-4.

This promising young man was buried in New Haven. His monument is in the college lot, and on it is this inscription:

Here
Lyes the Body of
Israel the son of
Hezekiah Brainerd
Assistant
Who died a member of
Yale College — Jan 6th
1748 aetatis suae 23.
Flendi quae causa est
Si tantum a morte tenatur
lutum.
Animam interea
Christus Complectitur almus!"[1]

▼References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 2. Hezekiah2 Brainerd, in Brainard, Lucy Abigail. The Genealogy of the Brainerd-Brainard Family in America: 1649-1908. (Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Press. : The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1908)
    2:Hezekiah:43, 66.

    "Israel (Brainerd), b. June 7, 1725, in Haddam, Conn."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Haddam Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    17.

    "Brainerd, … Israel, s. [Hezekiah & Dorothy], b. June 7, 1725 [LR2:19]"

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Israel Brainerd, in Find A Grave.
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