Hezekiah Calvin, letter to Eleazar Wheelock, 1768 March Calvin, Hezekiah Text Markup Unit, Dartmouth College Library Conversion to TEI P5 encoding Occom Circle Project Transcribed from the original manuscript Dartmouth College National Endowment for the Humanities Schweitzer, Ivy. Dartmouth College Department of English and Women's Studies The Occom Circle A digital edition Trustees of Dartmouth College
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Letter Calvin confesses to a troubled mind and to regret at having considered marrying at too young an age. He asks permission to go home. USA New Hampshire Hanover Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College. DC History MSS Hezekiah Calvin, letter to Eleazar Wheelock, 1768 March Calvin, Hezekiah

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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) Occom Circle Project keywords and controlled vocabulary March 1768 English To be added. To be added. 3 July 2012 Renee Lai Maninder Rakhra Pre-publication TEI review Hannie Wei Hannie Wei Penniphurr Stevenson Added DOI Hazel-Dawn Dumpert reviewed and adjusted prior to publication Lebanon March AD. 1768 Revend Reverend Doc..r Doctor

These Lines I write in order to inform you under my undsteadyne&slong;s unsteadiness of Mind, what it is, that so much besets me in tho&slong;e those most horrid Crimes of lately, is ( 1st 1st ) becau&slong;e because I have thought myself past hopes of forgivene&slong;s forgiveness from God, & and that I could not make myself any better after it. & and that my Days were but few, & and that tho&slong;e those few I intended to spend to serve Satan; & and to take what plea&slong;ure pleasure I could here on Earth, while I tar‐ ryed tarried here in the Woreld, such were my wicked thoughts. 2dly 2dly . My Mind has been unea&slong;y uneasy , but being some bashful I had it not in my heart to tell, but thought in myself to break a way away privately, & and yet I cant tell now without blushing, but think‐ ing it my Duty, it constrains me to break forth in this manner, Wretched now that I am, that ever I thought of a Conjugal state when I was, & and am yet Young for that state which has Continually been in my Breast since the Dor Doctor encouraged me in it,(I do'nt don't mean to reflect on the Docr Doctor ) but on myself, being so foolish as to entertain such a thought in my Breast, then being so Young. I must own that, that it was a Strong Motive in my misbehaving at Fort Hunter among the Mohawks; nothing was in my thoughts but being Mar–d married , & and My thoughts being captivated with this, has been a strong Motive to get me into intemperace intemperance , thinking I should be turned away from the School, & and so it was from one Crime to another hoping the same, but what a sordid thoughts are the&slong;e these attempting such an Action as this without the Doc.rs Doctor's knowledge &c etc.

There is something that makes me want to go home, what, I cant tell, Home is in my Mind all the time I want to go Home soon & and see my Relations, & and it seems to me to Tarry home a while or all the Time, & and let me see if that I am able to support myself, I have tarryed tarried upon Charity long enough, when I have had no more Gratitude to my Benefactors than I have had done, but all prove to the Contrary, instead of being grateful, I am as ungrate‐ ful as a Beast, which lays near to my Mind I had rather go home & and be turn'd turned out of the School which I have thought has been my Portion for some time I am unea&slong;y uneasy while I am here & and think upon home, if the Doc.r Doctor is plea&slong;'d pleased to give me liberty to I will go, but with much shame & and Contempt of myself, &c etc.

I remain Your Undutiful & and Ungrateful Servant H Hezekiah Calvin From Hez: Hezekiah Calvin March 1768

For the Reverend Mr Mr. Eleazer Eleazar Wheelock D. D. Lebanon T To— The Reverend