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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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Yours by our little Jerime— I received,
and thank
you for so much
so vile. I would have taken Your Dear
little Jacob into
my Family during his
stay here, but two
Divinity, and r
so
at rHedges.
Trial of Peoples
for him, and other Indian Lads of
upon
second thought, I was
be preventive of some future Acts of this Kind, and
therefore
have omitted for the
that my People are remarkable for Charity and
I am not able to Say; they once indeed
exhibited Evidence of their
as I
is not to be found scarce
in the Annals of
America, when they
sent 17 teen
fat Oxen
and bore the
am not
upon proper
your
mentioning from my People, for School.
But, I fear that in
Mortification prevailing, little, very little,
will be seen abounding. —
The dr
Davis Virginia, as Secretary of a Society there,
for
manner, he urges that r
among the
eireoikees
r
Ordination by declined, in
that, for
Several
But has fully concluded, that upon
he will early the next Spring accept
the Call. —
Accordingly I have wrote to rDavis
that upon hearing from
r
special occurring, he
may depend thereupon: And 'tis
altogether
You
will therefore undoubtedly conclude, r
r
attended as soon as it
I
Should be ordained by r
Informs in his letter, that a
now
ei
"him a fair Hearing; that there is Sufficient Encour
"agement to Send forth another
—
rDavis
£ty
r
Way to Virginia. I intended to have
much more of r
Time. — It has so
ved a
in the
as to
in Divinity, — the next Week is
the
and so
bad, attends mt
all; You will :r Sr
over the Errors
to let me hear from You as Soon as may be.
I am
Multiplicity of
for r
to come, and
for time — am weary with Writing — and
things; But not this one r
with a
with me in cordial Salutations to r
I am, dr Sr
For
The d Mr