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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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I received yours
thank you kindly for your attention to the
I thought it might be agreeable to you and
=mi&slong;sioners
missioners
=pliance with
their direction; I have made application
to the neighbouring
I send
mation of the
able to the
of
my conduct in the
It was thought
for several
r
place among my people
appointment. dont fully know in what light he
little of their
=wards me, in a view of my new
appointment having
had no
being again put into the
Sir to relate to you the
will only mention, the
r
or myself for their
settle in a neighbouring Town, expecting to have
him part of the time and could support him
than
were 30 for r
=pointment about half of the 30 have openly
left r
=&slong;ures
suresr
only mention that the bigger half of my people are
so r
if I was to leave them, they
would be the
happy people in the world — in short
up, and come to ruin. Having of their
of their situation induced me to say what I
did
to
my
Chief, and only
supporter of r
made that
This view of the situation of my people which is well known
to the gentlemen here,
has been another
ordination has been in the manner it is.
in the
to the r
I have written this Sir in
out for the
may be
the means of union
people I know they have all a strong affection for me
The Reverend tcher
Boston
ble
r