Brainerd
Americannoun
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This was especially true for David Brainerd, a sickly and intensely pious missionary to native tribes in and around the Delaware River.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Ayers graduated in 1939 from the Brainerd Institute high school, established in 1866 for the children of freed slaves in her hometown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
“These behaviors that look kind of silly are generating these really useful water flows,” says Elizabeth Brainerd, a functional morphologist at Brown University who was not involved with the work.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 9, 2023
“Basically snakes are all ribs,” Dr. Brainerd said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
As a specimen take that of the Rev. David Brainerd, who stands high in the Church, not only among Calvinists, but among all Christians who know him.
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk
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