Author
Occom, Samson
Date13-26 September 1777
ms number777513
abstractOccom records his travels as an itinerant preacher in Connecticut,
Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.
handwritingOccom's handwriting is mostly clear and legible.
paperTwo small sheets folded into a booklet are in fair condition,
with moderate staining and wear.
inkBrown ink is faded.
noteworthyOn two recto, in the entry for Monday the 22nd, "Asphos"
refers to Samuel and Robert Aspho. If Occom's intention regarding a
person or place name is uncertain, it has been left untagged. An editor,
likely
19th-century, has added several notes and overwritten large portions of the
text.
These edits have not been transcribed.
[illegible][guess: 15:]
Monday
went a little way eaſt
and Preachd, after meeting
went on Eaſtward, arrivd to
Scituate, put up at one
Mr Samuel Angell's a Preacher.
preſently after I got there a
number of People Came together
and I gave them a
word of Exhor
n
16: TueſDay
had another meeting
19: Fryday
went to Johnſon
Mr
S Angel went with me, Preachd
in the meeting Houſe, in the Eveng
Preachd again, in a privet
H
Lodgd at
Esqr Balknap's my
old Friend, —
23 Tuſeday
went to meeting at the
place heard one
Mr Willis a Bap
t preacher, after he had Spoke I
gave a word of Exhortation, and
then went home with
Mr
Hoſkins and Tarried there all Day, and
in the Evening had a
meeting
at the Same Houſe, Lodged
there again —
24: Wedneſday
went off early in
the morning and Stopt
Mr Deans and a meeting there, in the after
noon
went into Town & had anothe
^r^ meeting there in the
[illegible]
Houſe, abo
t
Sun Set
tooke Tea with
Mrs
Mcwater
Lodgd where
Mr Jones Boarded, a Young Preacher, —
25 Thirdſday
got up very early
and went on towards
Freetown Stop at
Mr Tobe's in
Bartly
&
took Breakfaſt there, Soon after
went on, arrivd to
Freetown about 11: Calld on
Mr Walcut a Young Preacher was there
a Little while and went
on a
gain
Mr Walcut went with me
to the Indian Place got there
Some Time before Sun Set I
Lodgd at
Daniel wards the
principle
Indian in the Place
^26^
Fryday
about 10 in the Morn had a meeting and there was a