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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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Once more I would attempt
to
from thee, r
intends to send for
I must go
I do not Love to
I want to go away from
like to tarry here, I shall never or I have
not
the Heart to do any good amongst the Heathen
I am r
does not give me leave to go, I must go without
leave
but I had rather go with a
out Liberty, but I am
of them, I should rather talk with r
first upon few things, I am
turn out as
much longer, so I should rather go before
the r
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the d
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