Samuel Hopkins, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, 1761 September 30 Hopkins, Samuel 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 Hopkins writes Wheelock about reports that Occom lacks tact in his dealings with the Oneidas, and that he is instructing them to leave off their Indian ways. He suggests that Occom may not be right for an Indian mission. USA New Hampshire Hanover Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College. DC History MSS Samuel Hopkins, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, 1761 September 30 Hopkins, Samuel

Slight wear, tearing around edges. Margin note “Occom?” added in different ink and hand, likely 19th-century. The opening salutation “R.D.S.” is likely an abbreviation of “Reverend and Dear Sir.

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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 September 1761 English To be added. To be added. June 2011 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert Maninder K. Rakhra Pre-publication TEI review Hazel-Dawn Dumpert Pre-publication review November 2012 K.G. Kidd November 2012 K.G. Kidd Penniphurr Stevenson Added DOI Great Barrington, 30 Sept. September 1761. R. D. S.

I received your two Favours which you wrote last Spring, which I read with no small satisfaction: and was at the pains of transcribing a considerable part of them to M.r Mr. Hawley. I should have wrote you long before this; but have found no Opportunity to send to you, as I live quite out of any direct and frequented Road to Lebanon. I hoped, all the Summer post past , to have the pleaſure pleasure of an Interview with you at New Haven on the Com­mencement, but was disappointed in that.

M.r Mr. Hawley is now at Onohoquage, as you will learn by the letter from him, which I transmit to you with this, which he sent open to me. I ex­pect he will return in about three Weeks. M.r Mr. Toppan, the young Gentleman who is gone with him, appears to me very promising for an Indian Miſsionary missionary .

M.r Mr. Hawley in a letter to me of the 20th 20th in&slong;t. instant de­sires me to inform you of the following particulars, which I will give you in his own words.

"Since I wrote my letter to M.r Mr. Wheelock, I am "advised that M.r Mr. Accom Occom is not quite so acceptable "to the Indians there" (at Oneida) "as I heard at first. "He tells them, they muſt must not cut their hair, but let it "grow as the Engliſh English do; that they muſt must not wear their Indian

"Indian ornaments, as wampum and the like; but "put them off, and burn them in the fire — That "they muſt must not feaſt feast at Weddings, at as at the Birth "and Baptism of their Children &c etc. &c etc. These are .—. "points that he inſists insists greatly upon; which are "are points too unpopular for them."

I am sorry to hear this of M.r Mr. Accom Occom , which if true, I think great ſhews shows him greatly deficient in that Prudence which is Neceſsary necessary for an Indian miſsionary missionary ; and render him unfit to go among indians, at leaſt least alone.

We ſhall shall be inform'd informed of more particulars when M.r Mr. Hawley returns, when I hope he will make you a visit.

We have nothing remarkable here, except it be, the universal and uncommon degree of Health which at present prevails among us. I have nothing to say about any new religious appearance. I have got a particular account from M.r Mr. Kent of the remarkable revival among his people, in order to transmit it to M.r Mr. Gillies in Scotland.

Am ſorry sorry to hear of your ill State of Health. May God restore and and confirm it, and make you greatly useful to Indian and English for a long time to come!

in the earneſt earnest prayer of your obliged friend and unworthy Brother, Samuel Hopkins Rev. M.r Mr. Wheelock. S. Hopkins 1761.