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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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left the place
about 10
it was a Dreadful Storm of
Rain and
a g
Indian Town about
morning, and it
w
towards Night r
Wiard
to have me Stay
give them a
plyd
hard, all Night— —
it
Still Yet a great Number of People
Came together at the
after meeting went home with one
r
a godly man I believe a very
meek and humble man
and
well reported by his Neighbours,
by
was with
r
them again —
as this is
their Sabbath So the People got
together for meeting at their
al
al
as Soon as I had done r
after meeting, I went back to r
Wiard
People got
together about 11: a great r
and I
the evening went to r
my good old Friend, he Came from
very Poorly this Night I was Trou
bled with a
els very much — —
was very Com
fortable this morning my
was gone, about 10 went to
Meeting one
r
and there put up my at
and went to meeting Preached to
a large
attended with great Solemnity —
in the evening
went to See r
Batholomew
Place he has
by
ed to be a good
with r
after Breakfast wen
on my Journey,
few minutes
and then
my d
the Place
one r
all night, and appointed a meeting
10
we had a Terrible Storm of Snow —
Storm Conti
nued very Hard Yet we went to meet
ing and there was a
ber of People, went to r
went with
r
which r
Days before
the Town, I
was a Number of People got toge‐
ther,
Service, the people were very urgen
to have another meeting in the
even
ing, and I
again; and we had very Solemn
meeting, the people in general
were
greatly affected — after mee
r
and
and
Bed quir
this evening and I
word to
be there on the next Day and give
them a Short
evening,
after Breakfast
and found r
word to
as Soon as
kins
there a little before
they gave notice to the People, and
begun our Meeting in the
evening
and there was a great Number of
People, and they attended well,
as
Soon as the meeting was done we
went back again to
This Night Lodged with one r
Camble
a very man I believe, — — —
had a meeting
at one
meeting, after meeting went into
Town, r
Taylor
Preach at the
Place all Day to amazing Num
ber of People —
r
is a very good woman, was very
kindly
two young women Came to me
under great Concern of Soul
and
I gave them a word of advice
and
left
early in the morning and
went
on to
10 r
and then went to meeting,
to a large Number of People, after
meeting went to r
and Soon after Dinner left the
Place and went on towards
r
ttokook,
Minutes at the Indian Place
but there was no Indians at home
to r
and they Sent word all round that
Night to have a meeting next
went to g
about 10 and had a great
Number of People to Preach to
and the
People attended with
great Solemnity and affecti
on, after meeting went to
r
Bodwell
Soon after Dinner went on my
towards
r
evening and
at the red meeting
at a
Place — —
went to r
Knibloer
about 1 went to meeting
after meeting went to r
Plat
than went on our way Home
to r
was at
r
all Day,
the Place and went over
the Mountain to r
there, and it was
Cold, went home with r
Fowler
left r
in the morning and went on towards
r
Night, r
and we
had a Joyful meeting he
and his Family were very well,
and his People
towards evening
went to the Hollow and r
with me I
r
is under great Conviction of
Soul
we had a great Number of People and
very Solemn meeting we had, —
—
we went 8: or 9
miles rl
Smithg
to a Crowd of People, and they attended
r
in his r
went off very
early in the Morning towards
bourough
morning put up at
r
rr
Came with us in the
1 began a meeting, there was not a grea
Number of People at this time they
was appointed at evening, —
in the evening a great
Number
Came together, and I gave them
another
are Chiefly Dutch, and I found
Some excellent
r
early in the morning towards
appointed meeting there at 1
bout meeting Time, and there
was a great Number of
People
I
went with one r
ti&slong;t
tist
was very kindly
here, with much
this morning
I made
Christian Cards —
r
r
Spent
with r
Clever Sort of a man —
the place again to a
Crowd of People, and we had
a very Solemn meeting many
were
brought to Floods of Tears
a
Sacrament with the People
and I Join the People it was
a Comfortable
as the service was over we
went to a Place
about 6 miles off, got there
in the
found a prodigious Number
of People,
r
I r
went to a
nother part of
7 miles off, to a
ing t
1 in the afternoon, and there
was a great multitude of
People of
all Sorts and Deno
minations, the greater part
of the People
to the
Solemn meeting — as Soon as
the meeting was done
we went to
wards
meeting in the evening at one
t
digious great Number of
People
and the People attended with much
affection —
early
in the morning went on to
keep&slong;y
keepsie
a
about four miles Down the River
rr
me about a mile out the Town
and there
took leave of me each
other in
to the Ferry, there met with
mag
his return Home from
nah
na
went Down to r
well except
very glad to See me, and
with all
after
fa&slong;t
fast
on rl Co
r
quaintances they were
glad to See me and
r
ful meeting, we had not Seen
each
other in Ten Years I felt as if
I was in my Fathers
up
took our
was at r
Wood
went to meeting at r
there were So many People they
had a Comfortable meeting
after meeting
with r
up Some Time after we got Home
was at
r
again and went to
for Meeting had a meeting in
one of Elders
home again with r
left r
early in the Morning and on
towards
r
on my way got to
before Night r
r
ter Brought me here in his
is one of my good old Friends
here I r
home, and
about 10
went to the meeting
a Multitude of People Came to
meeting, and we had a Solemn
meeting in the evening went
to r
a meeting there and a great
Number of People were
toge‐
ther again I Baptized two
of god
with us many were
brought to floods of Tears —
I
in the morning
went back again to
and
of England
People as Soon as the meeting was
over I went up to
a Crowded People and they atten
ded with affection
— after
—went back to r
went away
early in the morning r
went with me. and r
to
r
we were to have a meeting, a
bout 12
there was a Multitude of People
I had Some freedom in Speaking
r
Held
a meeting not far from r
Tolton
a great number of People
came together again — —
in
the evening had another
meeting not far the Place
where had a meeting in
the
Day and I believe the Lord
was with us of a Truth there
was great
Trembling in the
Congregation This night
r
had a long
them,
in the
morning went away to anothe
place, about 6
miles off, g
where we had
meeting at a Dutch mans
a
Barn, the
like Bees and we had a
meeting, after meeting I went
with a gentleman 2 or 3 miles
r
of Neighbours Came in to
meeting
tion any meeting, and I gav
a word of HExhortation
the morning and to
grove
there about 5 in the
after
Noon was kindly
by one r
there — —
was at
r
the evening one
to See me he is a
we had Some
together in Prodigious mat
ters — —
Place to a vast
and I had but little
Divine things, ho however,
the People attended with great
attention — — towards Night went
we had an
evening meeting to
a
Some
the People were much affected
I believe Lord was with us of
Truth,—
in the morning
quite early I
Clove
me, got the there
about 10 a
and there was a great multi
tude of People, and I
had much free
dom in Mind and Speech and many
People were melted into
floods of
Tears, as Soon as the Meeting was
done I went Down to
Ch Creek
went to r
well, in the evening went meet
ing
towards the Creek, and had
Some what Solemn meeting, af
ter meeting
went to the Creek
and r
went off early in the morning
in order to get over the River,
r
at
r
to the ferry, about 11 went over
e
to the Center of the Place,
got to
the
about 3 in the
People
on the next Day, and I went
to one
there, and was very kindly
treated and
about 11
and there was a great multi
tude of People,
and had a Solemn
meeting, As Soon as the meeting
was over, I went on towards
the
mountains, r
Judge
ly t
ever I
went off very
early in the morning, to a Place
ing, begun about 12:
in a Barn to a vast great
of People, and the Power of God
was
was great
People after meeting went with
one r
ter he lives in the mountains, and
I
about 12 went
to meeting,
ber of People in the woods, and we
very good meeting the Spirit of god
moved upon the
people, after meet
ing went Home with r Lawrence
the Evening r
to t
and Friendly
in Religious Matters,
Night, and was
and entertain —
left the Place and went over
to r
me we got to r
10: he is a
the Place, and he
with Brotherly
about 10 went
to meeting, and there was grea
Number
of People Got toge‐
ther, and I
much freedom the People were
affected many of
meeting, went Down to
Fairfieldr
fore Night, the meeting was
appointed at his
the People Came in So thick
there was not half Room
about to begin Divine Service
a
meeting
off and Said there was great
Number of People got together
there, and we were
remove to the
we got there we found a great
Number of People, the
Lord gave me
Speaking, after meeting
went back with r
Lodged there —
in the morn-
ing went Down to a Town
of
began about 12 and there was
a great Number of People got
together and we had a Comfortable
tetg
was over I went towards
Milford
r
there were very urgent to have
me Stay and
have a meeting
they Pled So hard it was very
hard for
there was one Young Convert
in particular
Tears in her Eyes to have me
Stay they
upon my very Heart Strings
and it Hard work to get
I did get
on towards
there Some Time in the
put up at r
Entertainment —
early in the morning, and
Time in the
Evening, put
up at
found
them all well — —
went
off very early in the morning
and Got So far as r
Cornwellthe
10 miles, I intended to have
gone further, but the Land
Lord
me Stay, and I
at
was
there, and they had a Notio
of
at last I
after
more the
with People. and I preached
and I had Some Freedom—
and
after meeting went
to
took
leave of
in the morning, and on
my way, made but little
Stops
by the way,
to my
Night, and found all my
family in good State of
Health,
—
Lord god of Heaven
for his
to my Family, that he has
carried me out and brought