Samson Occom, Journal Fragment
Author
Occom, Samson
DateUnknown
ms number003217
abstractFragment of a journal describes Occom's travels along the Connecticut
coast and Long Island.
handwritingHandwriting is clear and legible.
paperSingle small sheet folded into four pages is in fair-to-poor
condition, with heavy creasing, staining and wear. Wear in the upper outside
corners results in some loss of text.
inkBrown ink is faded in spots.
noteworthyThere are red pencil marks on two verso. An editor, likely
19th-century, has underlined portions of the text in black ink and, on two
verso,
added the note:
/ If common year, 1 day of Jan.
Thursday
Then 1747, 1761.. 1778, 1758
If leap year^ was Sunday..^ Then 1749, 1769, & 1775
If leap year, then Saturday 1
st
Jan:
and year was 1780.. (
[illegible] likely)
the reverend from
mauntauk to
mohegan in 1764 - 1765.
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Montauk May ye
4th
[gap: worn_edge]
a few of us Sot out from
Montauk to viſit our Brethre
^n^ at
Maſtick, and got So far
[illegible]
Hay ground at Night,
[illegible][guess: Fry]day Morning
[illegible]Sot out
from
hayground, and got
So
far to
[illegible][guess: one]
Homans, Saturda
^y^
from Thence and got to
maſ‐tick about
[illegible]Noon & found
our Brethren generaly well
&c — and had a Meeti
tng
with them at Night — But
nothing Special Appeard — at
that — Sabath May
[illegible][guess: ye] 7
held a meeting with them
again all
[illegible] Day But
nothing
[illegible] very remarka‐
ble
[gap: tear][guess: yet] they were very at
[illegible][guess: t]entive to hear the
very
word — Mon
[illegible]day May y
e 8 we Came a way, and
had a Short Meeting at
Mr Henry Haven'^s^, and
the People Seem'd to attend
with good attention, — and
from thence we went to
Moriches,
^^^ and had
^meetg^ at
Ben‐
Caſtles Wigwam, and in
the morning May y
e 9
we Sot out from thence to‐
wards home and to So far
as
Shenegecock, and had
a meeting there with
ye Indians, but nothing re‐
markable appeard
a‐
mongſt them — Wedneſday
may the 10 we Sot out
from there and got
home
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