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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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and you
I have thought much about it since then,
both Sleeping and
I must
one for
the Affair, and qualify Labourers, and Send them into the Heathen
Country, and give them the light of the
I am in GREAT MEASURE unqualified for
such an undertak
for it needs the Innocency
College, and have not Studied
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others, I dare not at
that most men are backward to
undertake in that
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and Glory may Redound to
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ly
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have no money of my own to support myself
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of being
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how
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