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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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to me with
character of a
thingk not without
new to me and what I
as the r
d
it so far as to mention it to the Ministers at
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a
my abilities, or else dont look upon it
a
for such a work — I look
upon myself
every account, My
a drop
nor what to say, nor
which way to go
People in Religion, and the great things of Eternity— I am
but a giddy Boy,
prudence, that
ary
ary
tand
their Tempers customs
unable to conform to them —If I should go in the Character
of a
me as a Man of the
make no allowance for my puerility, and
expect as mu if
I should not
contempt among them, and if not
yet should be under no r
land
What can I tell them? that I am half a
and what can I tell
whole ones sent? The tr
and that to keep a School, and to pretend to
instruct in a higher
head
Face
before the learned Errorist, I shall be unable wholly
to defend my Religion by dint
of Argument; It is true God
can make the
there must in ordinary way be some
should not think a pop gun had any
a strong wall — And
r
College and made a
was but a giddy boy? and will they not take
to
its a
drowning it would be
it be
leap in after him? — If some
of us
cClured
I was d
Juncture. before him — and to my shame may I speak
it I
am not a church member, and have the
such a wretch to preach — it's a thing I little expected
to enter upon
yet, and have not given my thoughts immedi‐
ately to it — I
cant think
to other Peoples Judgment, and quite contrary to my
own — I could offer
many more Objections but I forbear,
to tell my Mind —
To
The Reverend
In