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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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of People, and I Spoke from
ed well — after
meeting I went to
Lodged
there —
after
went on my way to
with r
the
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to one r
after
went on again,
two or three Friends, and So
r
and there took DTea
in the evening
went to the
Point,
r
had a meeting at a widow
Womans
was much People, and I Spoke
from
behaved well — Lodgd at
r
Vanderwariker
Soon after
eating I went back to
and in the Evening had a
at r
a large r
I Spoke from
and the People
attended well
Soon
after
of the Family and went
on towards
got to
Night, I put up at one r
we had a meeting, and there
was
and I Spoke from
after
I went to r
there all Night — —
Some Time
in the Morning, I went back
to r
there in the evening we had
a meeting,
Chiefly for Singing
n
and
meeting —
o Soon as
eating was over, r
took me in his
went to meeting at one r
great Number of People
and I Spoke from
the Same
attended well, Soon after
I went with r
his
we had a meeting in his
not all get in, I Spoke
from the words Sin is the
all Day at the Same
I had forgot my Bag —
Soon after
eating I went off, went to See
my Daughter
in the
there a while, and then wen
on to
r
Northrop
and there
my Daughter
found them well, but
poorly,— Soon went back
and at about 11:
we had
a meeting, and there was
a
of People, and I Spoke from
and the People attended well
Soon after meeting took
Dinner, and then went off
got to r
there and was well Treated —
got
up early, and took
with them; Soon after went
on my way, got to t
Rooff
was kindly
after
r
in
ther
David
about a
Mile off, went on
again, and got to r
Frank
he and
at Home, and Lodged there
Some
Time in the morning I
over to
on r
and was there a
while, and
returned back with a Certain
man to r