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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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—Have waited on m
—of which I cannot now write— But
However
Sum of the matter is—"that antecedent to
taining
tainingn
other goods in order to decoy
ns
in a Line down to the
to
will be the event as to your
gation
gationns
the Projectors
privately
in order to
fix them in an
tion upon no
Lands but Hold them as their Birth Rights the
great
Parent of all things has given them
with many arguments from fact as well as
—But y
great deal of fear the ns
Spread of the pure Gospel of
the a whole view of the
(a contract Specimen of which I have given) we
may know what is doing
to be done that you may
the great
manner we could
a weighty
if you think expedient Send your
and that the d
health will
admit
may
the
in 3 or 4 weeks from the date
P. S.
fit) we
we may
whole series of things but now
hint at them as they are as it were
in
I Shall continue to wait on the
In the mean since we
things openly or let any one know but
oh pray! pray! pray!
as ns
Letter to–
To
the dr
r
eanon—