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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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Since there is great
cerning my Life and Education; I take this
opportunity to
Inform
cation — I was Born a Heathen in
Mmoyanhee
alias
were altogether Heathens, and I was
Educated by them in the
our
the
ways, and my Parents in
the
Life up and down in the
a great Hunter, thus I
years old, and then there was a great St
in
as well as the
to think about the
great trouble of Mind for Some Time, I thought the
Religion
which I heard at this Time was a new thing among man=
kind,
Such as they never heard the like before, So Ignora
was I
— and when I was Seventeen years of Age I
a Hope, and as I begant to think about Religion So I
began
to learn to read,
was in my nineteenth year, and then I went to the
dr
there, and was very weakly
the true
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