William Hyslop, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, 1761 March 30 Hyslop, William 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 Hyslop encloses 13 pounds, four shillings for the relief of Occom. USA New Hampshire Hanover Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College. DC History MSS William Hyslop, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, 1761 March 30 Hyslop, William

Informal handwriting is somewhat scrawling yet largely legible. There are several uncrossed t's that the transcriber has corrected. Large sheet folded in half to make four pages is in good condition, with light staining and wear, and moderate creasing. Black-brown.

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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 Subject Headings (LCSH) Occom Circle Project keywords and controlled vocabulary 30 March 1761 English July 2011 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert Hannie Wei Hannie Wei May 12, 2014 K.G. Kidd Blank page tagging added August 15, 2014 Shaun Y. Akhtar Pre-publication TEI review Maninder Rakhra Pre-publication TEI review Hazel-Dawn Dumpert reviewed and adjusted prior to publication Boston March 30th 30th 1761 Mr Mr. Eleazar Wheelock Dear Sir

I received your Kind favour of the 29th 29th of Janr January the other day, & and his only time at present to Acknowledge Receiept receipt of the Same — but Shall write you more at Large in a Shorte short time

Sir youll please Receive from Mr Mr. Benjamin Ashlie Ashley Thirteen pounds four &slong;hilling shilling that I have Collected in prevete private Charety charity , for Mr Mr. Ocam Occom which youll please give him, & and in your Next Accknowledge acknowledge Receiept receipt of the Same that I may &slong;how show it to the Gentlemen I Received a great parte part of it from

I am Dr Dear Sir your very hum Svt humble servant William Hyslop

youll Receive a Letter from Mr Mr. Whitewell Whitwell from whenc whence I had £ 8 /.. of the above which youll you will acknowledge Receipe receipt of —

Blank page. Blank page. M.r Mr. Hyslop's Letter Collection for M.r Mr. Occom March 30. 1761

To the Revd Rev. Mr Mr. Eleazar Wheelock Minister of the Gospel at — Lebanon