Samson Occom, journal, 1787 April 6
Date6 April, 1787
ms number787256
abstractOccom details his travels as an itinerant preacher through Long Island, Southern New England and Eastern New York.
handwritingOccom's hand is largely clear and legible. There are some crossed l’s and uncrossed t’s, which transcriber has corrected. Occom occasionally renders the numeral 1 as a lower case i, which the transcriber has corrected.
paperSmall pages folded into a booklet and bound with thread/twine are in good-to-fair condition, with light-to-moderate staining and wear. The outside cover is of a different, rougher paper than the pages of the journal.
inkBrown ink varies in intensity.
noteworthyThere are several carets to indicate above-line additions, yet the additions they indicate are non-existent. There are edits throughout, likely 19th-century, made in black ink; these edits have been ignored by the transcriber. On nine verso, there is a dot that looks like a period, but appears to actually be a piece of lint. On 15 verso, it is uncertain to whom Occom refers when he mentions "my Daughter," though it is likely Olive Adams. People and places whose names are illegible have not been tagged.