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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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equally alike."
I thought my dear
to be the Indians which has been invariably
the Same from
the
Lands are all given for that
for them So long as there Shall be indians upon
the
continent to partake of the Benefit — I have not taken
a Step nor
Struck a Stroke Since I have been here but with
that view — In that
ns
done or
the B
and
ways,
an Hundred Indians and Youths
on Charity in a little Time — dt
Narrative — You may have one at
will Send, and in that be
‐times
taken unwearied pains for — perhaps
God intends to waft
them away from this Land — but however that may be
my
‐vors for them
as Long as I live, and I
I am unto God a Sweet Savor of
all
writes me that I may expect 12. Indian Boys from
t
t
the Spring — My Hope is in
is with him — I had this winter the very
account of your Son
with you in it and pray God to Sanctify it to you
and
Yours — Accept my Love to You rs
I
Influence which is needful in all
the pious Labors you
are or may be
of the Redeemer. And am with great Sincerity