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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 have
Letter dated the .th
improve the first Opportun
had to return you my sincere Thanks
for the kind
have made me and for the Love and
Regard you
have
But at Present Sir, there are several
Obstacles
against my undertaking the
Office of a
Natives of America:
once entertained Thoughts of it and
were utterly averse to it; and I have
no
Doubt but they still remain
But were my Friends willing I could
not at Present look on
myself, who
and important Work, which, as I
must think, requires a Man of
Years,
Knowledge
But if the Objections I have
on'd
oned
of Health would by no Means allow
of my
undertaking the Work of a
=sionary
sionary
Strength of Body as well as of Mind.
For these Reasons, Sir, I
must at
&slong;ent
sent
taking the great Work you
have
pos'd
posed
Designs
the Indian Natives, is the hearty Desire
Prayer of nd
To
The nd
at
Lebanon