John McCluer, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, 1764 May 28 McCluer, John 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 John McLuer writes to say that he has sent his son David to attend the school. USA New Hampshire Hanover Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College. DC History MSS John McCluer, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, 1764 May 28 McCluer, John

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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 28 May 1764 English To be added. To be added. August 2011 Emma Vance Mainder Rakhra Pre-publication TEI review December 2012 K.G. Kidd December 2012 K.G. Kidd Penniphurr Stevenson Added DOI May 12, 2014 K.G. Kidd Blank page tagging added May 12, 2014 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert reviewed and adjusted markup prior to publication Boston May. 28 1764 — Reverend Sir

I Rec.d received yours bearing Date march 15, which gave Account of your famelys family's being very Poorly, in health, I was hartely heartily Sorry for it, but having Seen your Son Since, which gave Account of there their getting Better, which I was glad to hear, & and prays they may Continue So, Dear Sir I have Sent my Son to you, hoping in God and Praying, he may Anſwer answer the End for which he is Sent, which nothing but time Can prove, after you have proved him Sir, I ſhould should be glad you would let me know, how you like him, I have shared Deedp in Gods God's Mercy, who has brought a ELleaven eleven of my famely family , Safe through the Small Pox, O O that a Sence sense of God's Goodneſs goodness may allways always affect my hart heart , & and theirs, So Recommending David to your Cair care , under God, Dear Sir

I Remain your Loving, Dutifull dutiful , and Obledgent obligant Servante servant John McCluer McCluer —

PS My famely family are all in health, & and Sends there their kind Compliments to you & and your famely family —

John M.cCluer McCluer May 28th 28th 1764

To The Revr.d Rev. Eleazar Wheelock Miniſter Minister at Lebanon in Connecticutt Connecticut

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