Editing David Brainerd (section)

===Death===
In November 1746, he became too ill to continue ministering, and so moved to Jonathan Dickinson's house in [[Elizabeth, New Jersey|Elizabethtown]] and later to Jonathan Edwards' house in [[Northampton, Massachusetts]]. Apart from a trip to Boston in the summer of that year, he remained at Edwards's house until his death the following year.<ref name="Piperpp" /> In May 1747, he was diagnosed with incurable consumption. In his diary entry for September 24, Brainerd wrote:

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'In the greatest distress that ever I endured having an uncommon kind of hiccough; which either strangled me or threw me into a straining to vomit'.<ref>Quoted in Piper, p. 133.</ref>
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During this time, he was nursed by Jerusha Edwards, Jonathan's seventeen-year-old daughter. The friendship grew between them and "many speculate that there was deep (even romantic) love between them".<ref>Piper, p. 138.</ref> He died from tuberculosis on October 9, 1747, at the age of 29. Jerusha died in February 1748 as a result of contracting tuberculosis from nursing Brainerd.<ref>Piper, p. 154.</ref>

After his death, his younger brother John Brainerd continued his work.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Verstraete |first1=Susan |title=David And John Brainerd: Missionaries to Native Americans |url=https://bulletininserts.org/david-and-john-brainerd-missionaries-to-native-americans/}}</ref>