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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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The Spirit of
tude
tude
sible
sable
all the Care and Pains you have
taken in my
Education. —
Tis true I have been Guilty of
misfortune which occasioned me
to Depart so, was my being in
Liquor, or I never would have
done it, I came to myself when
And after I found myself I was
so ashamed of myself that I
did
not want to show myself in the
fully in my Mind to follow the
Seas or
go home, But I concluded
to follow the Seas, I went to
tended to gone
was considering what I had been
about,
something as if I could not go,
before I had given
thanks' to
then after this I concluded to
come Back r
before I could go with clear
Conscience
Tis true I have been Guilty of
Paper, after having so notoriously
brought a scandalous reproach
upon
Liquor, thus to
school
Pardon,
diligence in watching against
any such evil Practices for
the
future But having
so many times, I would not, that
you should any longer be deceiv-
ed — I am now returning from
my evil ways, to come home,
myself on my bended knee, at
thy feet, that I may wholly
submit myself to the resent-
ment of a Master unjustly
If the acknowledging my Crime,
can have any influence on
your
in the Year of our Lord 1768
A
attended with a hearty contrition
I leave the
the Judgment that ye will
upon me, having wholly
condemned myself already
worthy of great punishment
graces
that can be. —
You know that our first
motions are so arbitrary in
their Violence, that in spite
of
no Laws but their own
that in the faults I have commit-
ted, there was more contributed
by
Nature, than my own free will
But as all Mankind are subject
to failings,
consequently liable to step
in Liquor
tis therefore I am heartily
Sorrow for being there
drawn
aside from my
laying ye feet
of a just