Samson Occom, letter, to Benoni Occom, 1791 January 17 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 that he is attending on the Assembly in New York about land, and urges Benoni to write and say whether or not he will come to Oneida. He also notes that he does not think he will live much longer. USA New Hampshire Hanover Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College. DC History MSS Samson Occom, letter, to Benoni Occom, 1791 January 17 Occom, Samson

Occom's hand is clear and legible. Single sheet is in moderate-to-poor condition, with significant creasing, staining and wear that results in some loss of text. Brown ink is heavily faded. The trailer on one verso is written in an unknown, likely 19th-century, hand. Because it is not contemporary, it has not been included in the transcription; it reads: "Mr Occom to his / son Benoni / Jn 17th 1791/ Selected for / Dr Sprague / Albany 1837." In Rauner Special Collections, the letter is accompanied by a sales slip, library notes, and catalogue clipping.

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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 17 January 1791 English To be added. To be added. 2/19/13 Victoria Portnow Penniphurr Stevenson Penniphurr Stevenson October 2014 K.G. Kidd Pre-publication TEI review Maninder Rakhra Pre-publication TEI review Hazel-Dawn Dumpert reviewed and adjusted prior to publication Janr January 17: 1791 My Son Benoni

I am now at Poughke&slong;ey Poughkeepsie , going on to New York to attend on the A&slong;sembly assembly , a bout about our Land and, it is not likely, that I shall get Home, till 'til , the latter end of Next Month,— and I want, if You intend to up at all to Onieda Oneida to Set out, So as you may there Time to Plant,— As I Came down I was Anthony's, and the Children had Hooping whooping Cough other wi&slong;e otherwise they were well,— And they expected there, where they live, last Fall, and they wo you dont Come,— Anthony Says, You talk very Strong that You wou'd would Come — and if you don't in­tend to Come, Send us a word, that we may know — I don't expect to live but few Days longer, but you may Die before me, and therefore think of Death and remember Death cComes the Judgement, and So beg of god to prepare you — This with Love to you both is —from

your Tender Father Sam&slong;on Samson Occom Not transcribed.