Copyright 2014 Trustees of Dartmouth College. Publicly accessible for non-commercial use: these pages may be freely searched and displayed, but permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please see http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/schcomm/copyright/rights.html for more information.
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.
Text conforms to "TEI in Libraries: Guidelines for Best Practices," level 4.
End-of-line, end-of-column, and end-of-page hyphenation has been retained and disambiguated by use of the type attribute.
Punctuation marks retained as XML character data.
Data in the sourceDesc follows DACS rules.
The facs attribute of the pb element carries the root file name for the page image, minus its directory and file type suffix. The specific location and file type are supplied in an XSL stylesheet.
The
Bearers have now undertaken to
more iencouraging. and I am
you will be fired with Such Zeal to help it forward as
will induce you
to break through many
-ties to
If you will conclude upon it and Set
for it, they will do any thing they can do
to help you forward. and I will give orders to n
Backus
as Shall be
amount of ₤50. pounds, which he will do
at the
Rate it can be afforded at, and if you are now in the
I will recommend your r
doubt not will,
towards you, either clear you of Debt out of his private
Who
in the womb of Providence,
by your
youths preparing for the Service,
another as fast as Doors shall be opened for them. and
who knows but that in a few years we may have a
of godly
to
It Seems to me my dear Sir If I were at Liberty
from my Chains as you
are
Tongues, that the offer of Crowns and
Kingdoms
would
them in the glorious
It is my Judgment that your Brother
no Door of
Family. I
from the
the Lands which he improves — Whereas here is a
fertile Soil
I will do by him as I proposed in
my former Letter to you,
ie will give him at the Rate of ₤50. r
he continues in the Service of School
pay begin from the Time he
School. and if he will
take t
every Member of this
the
of prayer for the
to begin half an hour after Six o Clock on Saturday Evening
and at e
particular t
for an t
rs