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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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Hard Times,
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two Cows and a
and three Swine and as Many
and wood to Burn
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m
to
work for me a Year, and he has above 2 Months to work
yet,— But I
ing School, if he had
Indians will give him his Board, he may keep
your
School 3 Months, and if you can agree with him to
keep it Longer
it — he is well qualified to keep school among the In
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