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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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th
March
which has hitherto animated all your Endeavours for
her
I am truly affected with that Party Spirit
&
which So Sadly s
Strange it Should be
Time o’ Day. but
that Evil i
it
ets
true Spirit and Genius of the Leading part of the Kingdom
at the
us) that Zions King, and Head, on whom She and by
whom She sd and will live through all Storms, has
his Name her Tribulations
Purposes, and but for a Limited Time. —
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great
Degree,
him before our rs
y
ion which
and
him. Excepting that he was blamed (only on account of
his
with his Tribe, to the Truth of, a made
of Some things relative to the
fully
fully and freely R
d his
they will not let him above. but I hope God will
in due Time
vindicate his
I
which You may See the Amount of the
in in this Place.
But that
Trouble is the
‐&slong;tance
stance
l
to grant rs
them
it may be
in the performance of their
Serve for their Protection therein
‐port
port
This Favour was readily granted to rl
n
edr
wrote l
le
m
r
if your Endeavours Should be
Return by the
The Names of the rs
s
Chamberlain
Fowler
Boys appointed to
Serve as ushers under the Conduct
and direction of the mus
dus
We have also appointed
r
‐mong the
‐ny rr
other who may be appointed by us to
I am
of be being So free a Beggar
as to
to hint it to me. and
tI am
I am dear