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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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moves me to
is what gives one much Trouble,
I understand Sir you are apprehensive (
not without
are such,
that I shall not be able to answer the End you
had in veiw when you d
and perhaps Sir
you may think I d
deceive you concerning the state of my Health
and Constitution. But
I am confident I can
say with a good Conscience that I d
to tell you the whole Truth, and if I did not it
was d
I
terest to have
importance; for thereby
I should have d
to much Blame: I cant but have a grateful
Sense of your many d
for the pains you have taken to instruct me in to the
Nature
have d
d
have said to me lately respecting my Health
and am greatly d
poor my Constitution so weak that a small
thing
me: I
in denying me that measure of Health which is
for me in order to my being
I should be wholly d
work is God's and that he can make
and Inability, for he often makes
Despicable means to
his Power
But yet I cant be certain it is my duty under
my
present Circumstances to devote myself to this Serv‐
ice. And
Several things
I can consistent with my Duty to God and
proceed any futrther in this Affair. To tell you the truth
Sir I am much
a dark
the way to my serving God and his
r
ance for a Mans not being well, and if he cant go
poor mean fellow, and if one gets their
Disresp‐
ect, and
to do them Good; and had I never so Strong
a Cons‐
titution, were my Hopes of doing Good ever so great,
and
could I ever so consistent with right and Jus‐
tice, proceed in this
affair I should not
out it was
you
ing your Expectations. For I know it must
troubles to think you had expended Christs
Money upon me to no
good
beg you to act with the Strictest Regard to the
Interest of
Christ and the Good of
it may
esteem the thing as highly as ever, yet I
Shall freely
submit to your Superior Judgment in the Matter.
if I have been to
blame in the affair I desire to
be Heartily Sorry for it, and would humbly beg your
er and direction. but I fear I have
already
gre&slong;sd
gressed
self
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