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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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It is well known that there are yet remaining
Numbers of aboriginal Natives in this Land; whose Manner
of living is Savage
‐tion; but
‐nently Habitations of Cruelty — they have continued, from Age
to Age, in
the
to all the Emoluments of Science — but
Subtle and
in all the Arts of Cruelty
their State is, perhaps, the
Colonies, been a Scourge and Terror to their
— often ravaging and laying
torturing, and
the Stones — Skillfully
methods of Torture and Cruelty within their Power.
And the
Knowledge of the only true God
and Saviour, and
of Society, and
Effected byut by
introducing the Gospel among them) is of such
years ago, to erect a
ing the
with a view to their being
of
with them in the Same
Boys which I have hitherto had in this
School; and their Proficiency
in Learning, has been Such, by the
‐tion
tion
both at Home, and abroad, have Seen fit to encourage the
‐out any Fund
for that Purpose.
But the
as are now
three or four Hundred Miles, viz three
School Masters, and two Interpreters,
to that Service, and where they can have little or no
towards their Support, from the Savages among whom they
live. Together with the
which now
are of Families of Importance in
Tribes Still more remote,
Are greater than can be
American Colonies,
of Debt; and want of Money are So loud, and
But
wider Door, than ever is now open for the Furtherance of
it, by sending
among Tribes where none have heretofore been; I am
not only
the
dr
confident that numbers and all
according to their Ability, who
have at Heart, that which the Heart of the great
Redeemer
is infinitely Set upon. viz. the
and the Salvation of the
ready to
he is
even in this Life bountifully requite those who
contribute
Supplies for these his
at
Kingdom prepared for you.
And whatever any
I shall receive as
it to the d
this
‐table Reflections, that their Charities
were
manner for the Glory of God and the Good of men, for which
Purpose I
th