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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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wait
The imprudent Letters which
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of
of Trade which Somebody
why not he as well as another? Yet the Letters as
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but God alone. it
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helped me through
all, and the
by it, on this
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have declared that
Shall think
that matter;
very
do I know who you will find willing to be an Agent on
this
the water, upon that Plan, so long as his own
to defray all charges.
Integrity towards the Redeemers
them. I never blamed them so much as in a
Thought
not
Bill, and to
the support of the
be sure. I think that
they were able and willing to Support
the Affair can be
man within my Acquaintance, and
and make a New Will and submit it to the d
the Gentlemen of the
My son Ralph after
with
to a good Degree. He is in high Spirits for Indian Affairs, he
‐&slong;tands
stands
any man I can
at
man to conduct this Affair when I have
done. Indeed I know of no
man at
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give my Love
to r
Pride. if you
him that he had better have a
write
this
I
have known So much of the
-tations to be very great. oh! watch and pray.
My dear Brother, I love you right well. and am
P.S. I
herewith
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for Intelligence. My
abate of my continual Labour but what Shall I do? I
pen
for many months.
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