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The Occom Circle Project is a digital edition of letters from and to Samson Occom (1727-1792), with other of his works. The documents in question are all housed in Dartmouth College's Rauner Special Collections Library. Occom was a Mohegan Indian, intertribal leader, public intellectual, and the most important Indian writer in North America in the 18th century.
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The important Affairs of the
tendance of so many of
that I despair of their meeting to consider
of the
Contents of your Letter, while the
Bearer remains in Town. I can therefore
only
give you my private Opinion, that
I think it would not be convenient to
ordain
it seems that the
are like to reap the benefit of his Services:
for as that is the case, it is a question
whether or no it is not calling him
off
from a Service, wherein he is already full
as useful. There is another
reason which
determines me for a delay, and that is,
that there is no Allowance
stipulated for
be done rs
d
he expects, and be likewise acquainted
with the
importance of the
its
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