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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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Your favours of thr
str
rect, for which I humbly
been glad enough to have heard from you
before, but did not
take it illy that you did not write,
tance for
you to attend to: besides I live so much out
of the way, that it is very Difficult to
get a
letter that is direct
such overtures in
providence, which
for me to relate —
without neglect of more important duties, which could not be
In regard to r
view him as an
and am very sorry I never had the
acquainted with him. We were in the country of the
tions
duties of our
great deal to do, that we were
an hundred miles or near it. However, tarrying in the
Coun
try, as I went after he did, when he was come off
many of the
tunity
tunity
he met
with, among them; which were quite equal to what
one could expect. and what I
communicated,
to write you, concern some what, in his preaching that was
exceptionable, I thought it was t
you, being his preceptor, spiritual Father
suitable
of himself r
and I think are satisfactory. A poor man among such a
people
without a faithful
pitied. However I would
that the
customs of Indians as they
rather be commendable in a
in some
much
much very directly
the
as much as e
t
model and guide for a
In regard to
to hear of its
and that it may
tions the great
second letter gives me great concern
to be afraid of your schools being a party affair, which
I
pray God to prevent — you and I shall find, Sir,
the more we have to do with
the world, that by
be
vantageous confederacy for any length of
time in any
affair. And we
of whom we might
&slong;ition
sitione
religion,
thods of promoting
it. Indeed, Sir, we need much of that
charity which believeth all things, Loveth all
things
dureth all things.
In regard to my Indians my influence over them
crea&slong;es
creases
labour; — they
— We have
Agent to e
and we
hope to have our affairs upon a better foot-
ing. I have about Seventy Indian
on this tract of Land
long to our meeting that live a little
off from it —