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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 suppose you have
you much Sorrow and Trouble of Mind. — For I was in
a
very bad frame of Mind; r
he
great man he was that he could order us about
where and how he
my Crop; and at this time r
angryer, and
your Letter I indeed wrote
out
about, nor can I now tell what I wrote,
for
as
but I remember
—For which
&slong;ions
sions
for I acknowledge I
and improperly to a Benefactor, yea more a Fa
ther who has been
fit me to be dld. again I
I
hard no longer. — I don't now think
be worthy of your Notice, I wonder you did
not turn me out
beg a Favour of you
which will Afford me
Comfort and
you write to r
not mention one Syllable of to me, for
cuts
me very much: though I
and
or to give as to trouble
I
f
fler
Comfort, which is this. Dont try
&slong;uad
suade
order me about. as
he wont be
order me,
into these Parts.
I am able to act for
a
I am well anyd contented,
nah
turns of
are apt to have — I
ly have a trial of pain in June, —
Give our Duty
To— the Reverend.
r