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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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We, the Parents of
to you. we thank God we are
alive. we hope you are yet
alive, t
r
e
taken of our Son. yes Father we thank you heartily.
we
are exceedingly h
e
our Son. he was always dear to us —
child — but now much better. you have made his mind
more
straight
r
eere
of our Son — for which we shall be ever Thankful,
God too. — we think perhaps in two years more — he may
be
fit to return. we hope you will keep him closely to his
books now, teIf he
be sick
is all we have to say.
—
service to you.
P.S. th
of my Blood,
something of a bad child, rough Temper
r
in
quite discouraged, send me word,
by, yours
To—
The dr
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