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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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I received your favour of the st
days ago. Hope my
some of that Pain which I know you
Thoughts that all your Endeavours to
to what you will learn from that Letter I add with great
that the two Schools under the r
s
will I hope when we have Time to collect the Children have
fifteen or
Sixteen Children without any
school here which will still
where we now meet though the
and the Numbers of
that the Indians are now
every day
expecting me home. I know upon what
Information you
came to a tlu&slong;ion
hope and
expect that when you hear of the
Affairs here you will say
the favorable Minute. And in confidence of this
only, I have
some Weeks ago concluded not to return
receive
I may have been thought to be cold,
in
that I have
the Affair succeed
making
teemd
teemedd
Judgment upon
‐ing at
ed that, if he came home this fall he should return
next
Spring. It
vantage
and making
year here and the succeeding year
there, than to
got a Little smattering of their Language which he says him
he can retain only by staying longer
I was fully
Winter was the only way to maintain and
there. To put
both wanted at
more than once in three or
four Weeks, and where the Indians
declare they will throw the whole up if the
now
beyond
the Opinion of Gentlemen who are
the Indians in
Country. and the Indians are in all
the
I hope to obtain an Interpreter this Winter without much
next six Months.r
that Place. m
and some other Affairs with the Indians. He was at my
Lodgings
I went and knowing his
little Indian I
and put in a Petition t
Indians
his r
which might be done without
or r
Reception that his r
next day.
Your Supply
Rev,d
as I had then
the £
‐ing made some
the Winter. My Credit here will I fear be ruined by neglecting
the
If you judge d
‐bation, cannot
Doubt but you will support me here to
my
as the
I
In the
your family and Love to
be
I
d
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