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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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Tribe
cy
number of who
characters
continue to injure and
and Steady part of that Tribe greatly — They
have
forcibly taken away the
many of their
of their Labours, and Seem
there are in Such Difficulty that they know
not
which way to turn — Their Eyes are to your
cy
Sachem
— they try to
trover&slong;ies
troversies
by delays they will Suffer
This
prudent man perhaps as much
Tribe
has more Influence among them than any Other
of
Tthem — When your
Favour which I
would
in their Case you would greatly oblige them.
I have done nothing towards providing
onaries
onaries
in your vicinity, nor Shall I do
about it, till I know your mind —
I herewith
to accept rt
of late advices from Home
also what
the Place to fix
It is Strongly Recommended from
to fix it on
below cy
of that place? I am with much
and