David Brainerd (1718-1747) was a Presbyterian missionary who worked  in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey with members of the Seneca, Delaware, Six  Nations, and Tutela tribes. Originally from Connecticut, Brainerd was inspired by the  Great Awakening taking place in the 1730s and 1740s in the British colonies of North  America. Brainerd was expelled from Yale Divinity School in 1741 for supporting  revivalist principles and denigrating a Yale tutor, and in late 1742, he began working as a  missionary for the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge (SSPCK).  Brainerd set out in the spring of 1743 to try and convert Native Americans along the  Delaware and Susquehanna rivers in the mid-Atlantic region. Critical to his moderate  success as a missionary was his translator, Moses Tinda Tautamy (sometimes spelled  “Tattamy”), who, along with his wife, converted to Christianity in 1745. A little over four years after beginning his missionary work, Brainerd died of tuberculosis, at age 29.

David Brainerd (1718-1747) was a Presbyterian missionary who worked  in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey with members of the Seneca, Delaware, Six  Nations, and Tutela tribes. Originally from Connecticut, Brainerd was inspired by the  Great Awakening taking place in the 1730s and 1740s in the British colonies of North  America. Brainerd was expelled from Yale Divinity School in 1741 for supporting  revivalist principles and denigrating a Yale tutor, and in late 1742, he began working as a  missionary for the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge (SSPCK).  Brainerd set out in the spring of 1743 to try and convert Native Americans along the  Delaware and Susquehanna rivers in the mid-Atlantic region. Critical to his moderate  success as a missionary was his translator, Moses Tinda Tautamy (sometimes spelled  “Tattamy”), who, along with his wife, converted to Christianity in 1745. A little over four years after beginning his missionary work, Brainerd died of tuberculosis, at age 29.