Moses Peck, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, 1761 January 8 Peck, Moses Text Markup Unit, Dartmouth College Library Conversion to TEI P5 encoding Occom Circle Project Transcribed from the original manuscript Dartmouth College National Endowment for the Humanities Schweitzer, Ivy. Dartmouth College Department of English and Women's Studies The Occom Circle A digital edition Trustees of Dartmouth College
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Letter Peck encloses £3, 16 shillings for Occom's aid, and asks for an account of Occom's work. USA New Hampshire Hanover Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College. DC History MSS Peck, Moses Moses Peck, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, 1761 January 8

Handwriting is informal and somewhat uneven, yet mostly clear and legible. Large sheet folded in half to make four pages is in good condition, with light staining and wear, and light-to-moderate creasing. Brown. For Wheelock's response to this letter, see manuscript 761225.

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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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Library of Congress Classification (LCC) Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) Occom Circle Project keywords and controlled vocabulary 1761 January 8 English Dumpert, Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, Hazel-Dawn Maninder K. Rakhra Pre-publication TEI review Maninder K. Rakhra Maninder K. Rakhra Maninder K. Rakhra Added DOI Hazel-Dawn Dumpert reviewed and adjusted prior to publication Revd Rev. Sir

Mr Mr. Occum Occom s Letter being Laid before our private Society we Determined To make a Colle ction for his Immediate A&slong;sistance assistance which is Now Sent To you To be Communicated to him for his Imediate immediate Relief that he may not fail nor be Discouraged discouraged it would be gratefull grateful To the Society to hear Some more particular account of mr Mr. Occum Occom how Long he has ben been Setled settled illegible what his family what his Sallery salary & the bigne&slong;s bigness of his Congregation

in the name of ye the Rest I subscribe my Self myself your Humbl humble Sart servant Mo&slong;es Moses Peck Bo&slong;ton Boston the 8 Janry January 1761 y.e the Sum Inclosed enclosed is. Three Pounds Sixteen Shilings shillings £3 ..16.0

To The Revd Rev. Mr Mr. Welock Wheelock att at Lebanon in Conetticut Connecticut LDC these pr per Favour Mr Mr. Lord M.r Mr. Peck's Letter Jany January 8. 1761. Collection for M.r Mr. Occom