Phineas Brainerd (1720 - 1803)

Born 17 Oct 1720 in Haddam Township, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Jerusha (Towner) Brainerd — married 9 Nov 1741 in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 8 Mar 1803 at age 82 in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Sources

• A Genealogy of the TOWNER Family: the descendants of Richard Towner, who came from Sussex County page 26

Jerusha Towner md Nov 9, 1741 Phineas Brainerd. Children:

• Jerusha Brainerd b Sept 9, 1742; md Ezra Shaler
• Phineas Brainerd b Mar 20, 1743; d Mar 31, 1743
• Elizabeth Brainerd b Mar 22, 1744; md Joshua Brooks
• Phineas Brainerd b Jan 12, 1747; md Elizabeth Brooks
• Esther Brainerd b Mar 9, 1749; md Aaron Smith
• Henry Brainerd b Nov 6, 1750; md Huldah __
• John Brainerd b Nov 7, 1757; md Deborah Hopson.

• Field, David Dudley. The Genealogy of the Brainerd Family in the United States (J.F. Trow, New York, 1857) Page 193
• "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:SBJ1-LZW : accessed 2015-01-31), entry for Phineas /Brainerd/.
• Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
• Brainerd, Dwight. Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd (Montreal, Quebec, 1948) Page 74
• "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F72S-YJR : 9 February 2018), Phinehas Brainerd, 08 Mar 1803; citing Haddam, Middlesex, Ct, reference 97; FHL microfilm 3,337.
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 07 June 2019), memorial page for Phineas Brainerd (17 Oct 1720–8 Mar 1803), Find A Grave: Memorial #61537765, citing Higganum Cemetery, Higganum, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by John Beckstein (contributor 46939506) .