In the 1750s they baptized children at the "Independent Congregational Churches" in Stoney Creek and later Charleston, in present-day South Carolina.
In August 1756 he traveled to the Cherokee Overhill country on the banks of the Little Tennessee River as the engineer constructing Fort Loudoun.
[5] He was imprisoned in France by the American Revolutionary government,[citation needed] accused of being loyal to the British cause.
His criticism of politics and the aggression of nation-states as well as his anti-imperialist position was not well received in the intellectual climate of the early American Republic.[5]: p.
494 According to Plowden Weston, "I know nothing of De Brahm's life; but he lived within memory of persons now alive, much addicted to alchemy, and wearing a long beard."[6]: p.