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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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with humility, Love and
Gratitude I sit
dd
Letter, dated dr
thought that
your worthy
or that you had heard
way to help me. and I was greatly dejected, and
couraged
couraged
and
fe&slong;t
fest
which
I was in the greatest straits and
been found
Beneficence.
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hath
in
rent
rentDTimes. and a Collection was
and Encouragement two
very honorable Collection made, worthy of the
Generous, and
Noble Spirit, of the Wealthy Inhabitants of
City
I had Sufficient Collected for me, to discharge all
my
debts, and
&slong;i&slong;tance
sistance
s to the Letter I
I believe that I
or
not certain howedr
in the
I humbly, and
as
him, and make him believe that you think that I am
worthy
glad. he believes Me
to be worthy
preached for him three times. and he was very
of helping me. but he thought proper, that
Should be had from thee: a Recommendation.
— he
to think if proper Steps be taken. he can obtain for my
help, obPer Annum.
befriend me, if you
no
had a
Stagger not. — I am
and ever bear upon my mind that my
upon the Lord
poor
fixed on the Lord. —
I Shall write to my friends in
and I
the
dr
do
it with double Courage if he has few lines from you.
I know not the Gentlemans
Christian Name. but he
but if he has not wrote the
to Send a Letter to r
who lives in the
and r
to write full, and get as much help for me as ever
you can
from that quarter. or from
which r
I am
engaged. I believe that there will be upwards of
Sixty young
Indian
that will th
next
will do their
who will
them in these Latter Days. — Pray for us.
that
we may obtain
might be
and
who are
me in a more particular Manner. that the
Lord would
and in giving me true humility
and
the ways of Religion, that he would give me grace
Sufficient for
me.
to be at your
with my friend
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