Samson Occom, Journal Fragment

Author Occom, Samson

DateUnknown

Call 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 1st Jan:
and year was 1780.. ([illegible] likely)
the reverend from mauntauk to
mohegan in 1764 - 1765.

Persistent Identifier

Montauk May ye 4th [gap: worn_edge]

a few of us Sot out from
Montauk to viſit our Brethren
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, Saturday
from Thence and got to maſ‐
tick
about [illegible]Noon & found
our Brethren generaly well
&c — and had a Meetitng
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 ye
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‐
Caſtle
s Wigwam, and in
the morning May ye 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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Non-contemporary text not transcribed.
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