Samson Occom, letter, to Mary Occom, 1766 March 11 Occom, Samson 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 Occom details the items he is sending for his family from England, and tells of his inoculation by Mr. Whitaker just hours before. USA New Hampshire Hanover Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College. DC History MSS Samson Occom, letter, to Mary Occom, 1766 March 11 Occom, Samson

Occom's hand is clear and legible. Letter case is occasionally difficult to decipher. Single medium-sized sheet is in good condition, with mostly light staining, creasing and wear. Brown ink is lightly faded. An editor, likely 19th-century, has added a note to one verso that reads: "Occom to wife London march 11, 1766?" This note has not been included in the transcription.

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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 11 March 1766 English To be added. To be added. January 25, 2013 Maggie Conners January 2014 K.G. Kidd January 2014 K.G. Kidd October 2014 K.G. Kidd Pre-publication TEI review Maninder Rakhra Pre-publication TEI review Hazel-Dawn Dumpert reviewed and adjusted prior to publication London March 11: 1766 My Dear Wife

I send you with this letter Some Cloathing clothing , for our Family, there is 9 Yards of Broad Cloth broadcloth and Some Shalloon, to make a Sute suit of Cloaths clothes for Aaron, and what is left you may do as you Pleaſe Please with, you may make Blankets or Cloaks of it, — and a pice piece of Stuff about 30 Yards and Strip’d striped Flannel between 30 and 40 Yards, and 38 Yards of Checker’d checkered Linen, and about as much white Linen — they go by way of Boſton Boston . and Mr Mr. Peck will send them to Norwich Landing to Mrs Mrs. Whitaker, for her things and our things are all in one Box — By the Mercy of god I am in Good Health, and I hope and pray theſe these may find you so — Truſt trust in the Lord Jehovah, for in him is Everlaſting everlasting Strength — about a quater quarter after 3: this after-Noon afternoon , I was Inoculated by Mr Mr. Whitaker, — and you will soon hear whether I am well of it or Dead with it — the Cloathing clothing is by the Revd Rev. Mr Mr. Whitefield and the Pins and Books by Madam Whitefield. and the Coffee Pot and 3 Braſs brass Screws by one Mr Mr. Withy, — you muſt must never put the Pot on the fire, the Braſs brass are to hang Cloaths clothes on — from

your Huſband husband Samſon Samson Occom

I have alſo also sent 3 pair of girls Stockings and one Dozen of knives and Forks and a Picture of King & and Queen —

To Mrs Mrs. Mary Occom at Mohegan, N. New London in Connecticut