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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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May it
Were I not confident, upon good
another Spirit, than that which rules in the men of this
world,
and with nobler Principles, and higher views
than they are
what Returns of Gratitude to make, which your
‐&slong;hip
ship
Grand Affair, on which I have Sent the drs
the
that is Set before you, I need not trouble you with,
toward you, which fill
not only mine, but the Hearts
of all who love our Lord Jesus
the world.
Nor can I, with this confidence of your
So
‐&slong;cious
scious
than the Advancement of the Kingdom of
our common
Lord,
Lord, and the
to
Suggest any other Favour, which may be in the Power
of your Hands, towards it, or
attainable by your
Influence. and particularly that the grand
couraged
couraged
Situate, and Sufficient for it. as by the
late
Tracts are become the Property of the
other Tracts which were before chartered, but
of but little account, by
country, are now become
valuable and may Soon be
peopled.
of these Lands, his Majesty has
already been
with good
another, as a Reward of their Merit, and
as Profit has
accrued to his Crown by their Service. But, may it
your
or done, in Which there is any
‐ment of the Numerous Tribes of
Savages in this land, to the
Subjects, and
in any
has which is recommended to your
The Nations will not make war with us while their Children,
and
Intentions towards
them — They know their Sons are made better
by being with us — and that
we make no gain to
it — They receive the
treat them as Children in Health, and in
all our
our Motives are
Something great, quite beyongd what they have
before
of the
their
do, when, and So
them) and their own
to
their isare yet
‐crea&slong;ing
creasing
‐pli&slong;hed
plished
recommend a Sober, manly, virtuous, and religious
Life by their
own Example. I can now obtain as many of their Children as
I
than I could one
important are the
view?
And by the royal Favour of a Tract of Lands in Some Place
convenient, Sufficient to
Members of it while
they are learning
them, and the Crown, with
the Same
But as I am ignorant what may be
for, and as I would not
in this Affair, I have fully communicated my mind to the
drr
may expect to hear what may be judged
the great Ends in view.
I humbly
and I hope the Nature, and importance of
the Subject may be
begs leave, with the