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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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a family Near r
Daughter and I
will give you e
they are near relations of of r
In
neglect calling upon the old
Gentleman
Query if it would not be worth your while to call at —
a Daughter married there in
considerable Circumstances
I am r
can to promote this great Charity please to
my best respects to the whole family —
I do most
an Undertaking my heart is with you and was I a
person of fortune great part
the
Indians May the Lord be with you
your great and laudable Undertaking but I cannot take
my
leave of you as I hope you will r
on Lords Day but this I must leave to your
generosity
and as you
it would give your friends in general great pleasure and one
in
particular but for fear of being tedious must conclude
with my respects to
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from r
PS/
please to give me a line
by the first
been at t
to br
dr
will preach next Sabbath
morning at half after
ten o'Clock at the d
r
And as it is imagined
by Some that this is a party
fore to
that this noble
Set on foot
Gentlemen who are of no
Such party, as is evident
by
the Reccommenders of all deno‐
minations above —
dr
of
to
Charity reccommended above will
preach at the dr
after 10.' O'Clock in the morning
for the benefit of Said
Charity.
And as Some have imagined that this
Charity is a party
by the
begun without
any
to any party; but with the Sole
only to
ever; as is evident from the
above
recommendations in which
tians
tians
united, And we Shall be heartily
Sorry if
any party Should
To
dr
at
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