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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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your
among the Indians— It is I apprehend, in the General,
prov'd
provedrs
to me) had for the most part a Right
to send over r
e
&
city— So much Simplicity appears in the man: So honest,
So well he speaks in
among his friends & mankind, that he
engages their hearts—
may you be as
you have been in him!— By
virtue of the Power given to
rare
are now chosen on this side the Water, Trustees for the
Money t
From the many Thousand Pounds in Capital, & the many
hundred, the
yearly Interest of the same, ch
advanced, er
Tis
His Children are, I
apprehend, many, & Substance Small—
yet the Good man seems to
if he can have a Sufficiency to Improve his little Estate.
Undesired, & entirely without his
knowledge I write this
in his favour; but
I'm persuaded, I might easily
to join in the Same Petition— Shall I entreat,
that
you, Dear r
E
it— It must be supposed that the Great
acceptance he
meets with among mankind, adds considerably to the
Collections,
"This Preacher was born & bred an Indian—
He
left his family— He
good Cause. He is ready to Preach when
desired— And
behaves th
In the Narrative P 27, I am much
you have come among us with the Good word of God, or God is news— we will by e
Endeavour to keep the Fire ch
will take our Old
Customs,
"ways, & Sins,
and
& never look on them
again; but will look
"forward & run
after
the Christian Religion— May The Indian People be
their minds (may they be e
'o, that, the
Power of
all that
is Pious, Right, & Good, may prevail among them! May their minds be
& affections, th
rial Services!— — As I have the Satisfaction
of contributing my best Endeavours to the
Increase of the Collections, it will be
greatly promoted, by frequent ts
ch
may attend the additional Schools in the maywill
& Reward your Pious zeal in time & to all
Eternity
Prays
I shall esteem it a favour, if by one or other
of the Ships, t
e
I may at certain Seasons, receive a Letters from you—
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