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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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Yours of r
a few Days ago, wherein You Speak of mu
Sorrow on my account, I am obliged to you
So far as it is
that it is a sort of Reproof from God, that I
was
Left to Stray, for my Staying at Home so much,
But I don’t think with
You, — God
ly gave me
Now two whole Years, and I have been
fin’d
fined
greatly
&slong;ent
sent
more than this, I am as well, if
not better
by them than ever, if I
their
town
der my
under a
into the
up and
from
money to
couragd
couraged
always
the
to Settle there — had he a proper Encourage‐
ment he
for what you offer — he has Some
thoughts of
offering his Service to the rs
into the £30
to Settle — I am very Jealous that
nary
nary
mater to Suckle the
Dorn’d
dorned
She’ll be Naturally
for She is already equal in Power Honor and Autho
rity to
and any College in
College has too much
Indians they’ll never have much
So Saying I Speak the general Sentiment of Indians
and
onaries
onaries
Leaving You and Your Service Confirms me in this
opinion, —
and So
few or no Indian Scholars, gives me great
dtended Purely for the poor Indians
with this thought I
Soul, left my Country my poor Young Family
all my Friends and
Relations, to Sail over the
School, Hoping, that it may be a
fet
fit
I went a Volunteer — I was quite willing
to
become a Gazing stock, Yea Even a Laughing
Stock, in Strange Countries to
Promote your
of People from Place to Place, that there was a
of the Lord
in the
them that there were So many
So many
a greater Number
g
But when we got Home behold all the glory had d
and now I am
Deceivers in
quickly to your College, in great Numbers and
not
to have So many Whites in the Charity, — I
&slong;tand
stand
three
the Minds of the Donors,
we told them, that we were
I went, purely for the poor Indians, and I
Should be as
ready as ever to promote your School according to my
poor Abilities
&slong;tration
stration
help
I am full of Doubts,
— Your writing to r
to my
gave me to think,
that your Indian Scholars had
naries
naries
white People about here is that You have been
Send me over to
they don’t Care any
their Ends, now you may Sink or Swim it is all
one to them, this makes
me think of what that
great man of god Said to me, r
before I left
ah, Says he,
Money
for them, but when you get home, they
won’t Regard you
I am ready to believe it Now — I am going to Say
Some
thing further, which is very
So to write, — Many Gentlemen in
and in this Country too, Say, if
Indian
Bait, you
of the Money you did, one gentleman in Parti
cular in
my face he e
but now I have £50 freely — This
one
gives me great
gland
that which I think was my Duty to Do — I mig
write more but I have no time, — I
but you got so
if I am under any
en me, — I am better in Health than I’ve
been
and my Family is well
ts
and Accept Duty from
PS I have not wrote this Sort to any one
in
mind