Eleazar Wheelock, certificate, 1766 December 3 Wheelock, Eleazar 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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certificate A copy of a document certifying Occom’s promise not to act in the Mason v. Colony of Connecticut Land case while in England. USA New Hampshire Hanover Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College. DC History MSS Eleazar Wheelock, certificate, 1766 December 3 Wheelock, Eleazar

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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 3 December 1766 English To be added. To be added. 13 April 2012 Ivy Schweitzer Maninder Rakhra Pre-publication TEI review Hannie Wei Hannie Wei Hazel-Dawn Dumpert reviewed and adjusted markup prior to publication Lebanon 3.d 3rd Dec.r December 1766

These certify that M.r Mr. Samp&slong;on Samson Occom declared it to be his Settled, & and fixed Determination to be no manner of way Aiding or ­ting in the Affair depending between M.r Mr. Ma&slong;on Mason and the Colony of Connecticut commonly calld called Ma&slong;ons Mason s Case. And he also fully knew that I was fully determined not to Send him unle&slong;s unless I could may be well a&slong;sured assured that he would not meddle nothing with that Affair and I have been from Time to Time Certifie'd certified fully A&slong;sured assured that he has ­ &slong;tantly stantly continued Steadfa&slong;t steadfast in that a Determination, and had that the has Neither Said nor done any thing anything at all in Favour of that Cau&slong;e cause .

Certified by Eleazar Wheelock

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Copy of Cer M.r Mr. Occom had ingaged engaged not to Act for Ma&slong;on Mason in England. Dec.r December 3. 1766