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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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When I d
of tho
r
‐forming me of your
received my Receipt of the Books sent to
through his Hands, I was indeed
with such a Neglect of mine,
I am obliged often to plead, as
that too, in
Time for it,
came safe, and a choice Present I
have to the
of them, among the Indians of Several Tribes,
to such as I judged your Charity would point out —
The
you may depend upon it, my dear Sir, by God's help,
be
faithfully
for the pious Purposes for which you
And God grant you may meet Numbers of
poor Savages, on the
may hear the Mention of your Charity, as the Means
under God of preparing them for,
In addition to my ordinary Work in the
The care of
supplying
into the
been
of the Outpouring of a Spirit of Conviction,
It began
drcCullock
who was hopefully converted in a like
about
this
Concern soon spread
general have been nothing like so great, as
they have been
in several former Seasons of
that about 27 Years ago: yet
in many
good. And by the Mercy of God, the
whole has been con‐
ducted with such Decency
ever heard of, to find so
much as a
‐&slong;truments
struments
‐ment of it, but peace
Degree our Character. God grant we may not, as
we have
heretofore repeatedly done, under such a Mercy, neglect
our Watch,
about 50. in this
Charity, are become Subjects of a Saving
Work of God's
Grace. About the same Number were hopefully added to
the Lord in
the afore
ago: there is of late a
‐bouring
a Town
this Colony, under the Ministry of the dr
about 70 or 80 Miles from me,. there is
appearance of it in
but the
&slong;tructed
structed
people called
The Work of God among the Indians at
been indeed Wonderful. The Town called
r
a
teemed
teemed
prevented joining with them at
that Time, but
expected to have the opportunity very soon — of this
Number
were many, if not
men (as they call their
In this affair there has been from
now, great opposition from Earth
Frequent Reflections between the Tribes
—
duct of Traders
— Several large,
have sold large Tracts of their Lands to the
or getting Good, so long as their Money
they able to buy Rum at any rate — By this
Means several of
their Tribes are much
‐ed
ed
frequent Murders committed among them —
their Children
Tribes in a continual Ferment for Months
together, as
But after all My Hope is in God, who has ma‐
e
that we shall yet see Numbers of the poor
‐ney
ny
Grace of God towards
while ago like their Brethren; will prove but
an
through the Wilds of
I doubt not your fervent Prayers
&
of all Grace for the
to his Word
at the Throne of Grace, to remember in particular, him
who, though now
unknown, hopes soon to
where the wicked shall
‐on to
you —
drcCullock
th