Samson Occom, letter, to Joseph Johnson, 1775 April 14 Occom, Samson Text Markup Unit, Dartmouth College Library Conversion to TEI P5 encoding Occom Circle Project Transcribed from the original manuscript Dartmouth College National Endowment for the Humanities Schweitzer, Ivy. Dartmouth College Department of English and Women's Studies The Occom Circle A digital edition Trustees of Dartmouth College
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Letter Occom writes to express regret that so few Indians are going to Oneida, and that Johnson should, above all, keep peace among the Indians there. Occom also writes that his daughter Olive has married. USA New Hampshire Hanover Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College. DC History MSS Samson Occom, letter, to Joseph Johnson, 1775 April 14 Occom, Samson

Handwriting is clear and legible. Single medium-sized sheet is in good condition, with light-to-moderate creasing and wear. Brown ink is faded. The trailer appears to be in Occom's hand, although it could possibly be that of Mary Occom.

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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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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) Occom Circle Project keywords and controlled vocabulary 14 April 1775 English To be added. To be added. February 6, 2013 Hazel-Dawn Dumpert Maninder Rakhra Pre-publication TEI review June 2013 K.G. Kidd June 2013 K.G. Kidd Hazel-Dawn Dumpert reviewed and adjusted markup prior to publication Mohegan April 14: 1775 Dear Child

I have only Time to inform you, that thro through the goodneſs goodness of god we are all in good State of Health at preſent present , and your Family is well, and all the Indians are in good Health, I am Sorry, So few Indians are going up to Onoyda Oneida this Spring, yet I hope they will keep moving up more and more, — Let me know by the first opportunity, how the Indians apeare appear now towards our Indians, and if any thing anything is in agitation worthy of notice let us know it, — what ever whatever you do keep Peace among yourſelves yourselves and hear to one another for your mutual good, — Take god with you in all your Concerns, let his word be your Rule both in your Religious and Temporal Concerns, inrich enrich your minds with the word of god — Our Olive has marryed married last Night to Solomon Adams

This in utmoſt utmost hast haste is from your Affectionate Father Samson Occom Something about Land in Oneide Oneida

To Mr Mr. Joſeph Joseph Johnſon Johnson at onoyda Oneida —