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Occom, Samson, 1723-1792. Letter, 1763 June 1, New York, to Mary Occom, Montauk, Long Island / Samson Occom.

Title: Letter, 1763 June 1, New York, to Mary Occom, Montauk, Long Island / Samson Occom.

Instructions for management of their farm in his absence.

ArchivalResource: [1] leaf ; 21 cm.

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Fiala, James A. Samson Occom correspondence collection, 1763-1772.

Title: Samson Occom correspondence collection, 1763-1772.

Documents purporting to be transcripts of correspondence to, from and about Samson Occom;

ArchivalResource: 7 items : 28 cm. and smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79005824 View

Thornton, John, 1720-1790. Letter, 1769 August 26, Clapham, [Eng.], to Eleazar Wheelock, Lebanon, [N.H.].

Title: Letter, 1769 August 26, Clapham, [Eng.], to Eleazar Wheelock, Lebanon, [N.H.].

References to George Whitefield's visit to America in 1769-'70, to transfer of part of Indian School funds to an agent in the colonies, and to Samsom Occom.

ArchivalResource: 5 p. on 2 fold. leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6956391 View

Moor's Indian Charity School (Hanover, N.H.). Records, 1760-1915.

Title: Records, 1760-1915.

The records consist of meeting minutes, ledgers, daybooks, receipts, vouchers, bills, balance statements and other financial summaries, audits, and correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 3 feet (5 boxes)

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Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection, 1960-present

Title: Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection 1960-present

The Phillips Fund Collection consists of materials submitted to the APS by recipients of grants from its Phillips Fund for Native American Research. The materials vary in scope, ranging from linguistics to ethnography, musicology, religion, ethnobotany, and history, and including study of Indian cultures from Canada, the United States, and Mexico.

ArchivalResource: 30.0 Linear feet

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Occom, Samson, 1723-1792. Letter, 1770 November 16, Mohegan, to Rev. Mr. Fish Stonington.

Title: Letter, 1770 November 16, Mohegan, to Rev. Mr. Fish Stonington.

The allowance for schoolmasters at Stonington is very small for these hard times; he has hired Jacob Fowler to work for him.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. 31 cm.

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Houghton Library. Houghton Library printed book provenance file, L-Q. 1942.

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, L-Q.

Index to ownership/provenance information primarily from printed books at Houghton Library.

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Allen, William, 1784-1868. Papers, 1800-1856 [bulk 1810-1826].

Title: Papers, 1800-1856 [bulk 1810-1826].

The papers include correspondence and other writings relating to Dartmouth University and the Dartmouth College case, manuscripts of three unpublished books, addresses, and personal correspondence and financial papers. Allen was an honorary member of the class of 1812, a Dartmouth College trustee, president of the short-lived Dartmouth University, 1818-1819, and president of Bowdoin College, 1820-1838. The papers document his tenure as minister in Pittsfield, Mass., his college presidencies, his executorship of his father-in-law's estate, and his retirement to Northampton, Mass. Book manuscripts cover geometry, Samson Occom, and American personages. Correspondents include his father-in-law John Wheelock, wife Maria Wheelock Allen, N.H. Governor William Plumer, and various Dartmouth College officials and alumni.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (0.75 linear ft.)

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Ottery, Rudi (RuEllen Serina Hjella), 1927-1992. Rudi Ottery Papers, 1604-1991 (bulk: 1800-1988).

Title: Rudi Ottery Papers, 1604-1991 (bulk: 1800-1988).

Consists of records on the Brotherton Indian tribe including tribal rolls, censuses, descendancies from Brotherton progenitors, and enrollment files collected from individuals of Brotherton descent wishing to be placed on the Brotherton Indian rolls (as part of a larger effort to petition the federal government for formal recognition as an Indian tribe). The enrollment files include supporting documentation such as notes, family group sheets, correspondence, vital records, newspaper articles, land records and some photographs. The collection contains historical records consisting of photocopies of treaties, deeds, government reports, powers of attorney, letters and other documents primarily concerning the tribes land dealings as well as applications made by New York Indians (Oneida, Stockbridge, Brotherton) and their descendants for compensation from the federal government for the Kansas lands which were promised in the treaty of Buffalo Creek, N.Y., January 15, 1838. Includes resource material consulted by Rudi Ottery in preparation of her book "A Man Named Sampson."

ArchivalResource: 33 linear ft.

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Occom, Samson, 1723-1792. Letter : Mohegan, [Conn.], to Eleazar Wheelock, [Hanover, N.H.], 1774 Mar. 14.

Title: Letter : Mohegan, [Conn.], to Eleazar Wheelock, [Hanover, N.H.], 1774 Mar. 14.

March 14, 1774, letter from Samson Occom to Eleazar Wheelock, reporting that the Oneida Indians had agreed to provide land in New York for the settlement of the New England Christian Indians.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf) ; 34 cm.

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Occom, Samson, 1723-1792. Letter, 18--.

Title: Letter, 18--.

In a strongly worded letter to an unidentified correspondent, Occom declares that John [Dantuckquet?] and himself have been unjustly served with lawsuits.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 sheet) ; 30 x 19 cm.

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Ayers, Russell, 1907-. Samson Occom in portrait : with an essay--Indian summary, for whatever the reason / Russell Ayers.

Title: Samson Occom in portrait : with an essay--Indian summary, for whatever the reason / Russell Ayers. [1980-1985]

ArchivalResource: [30] leaves : ports. ; 28 cm.

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Occom, Samson, 1723-1792. Samson Occom diary and herbal recipe book, undated.

Title: Samson Occom diary and herbal recipe book, undated.

Diary entries from 23 Jan. [no year given]; together with herbal recipes.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Niles, Nathaniel, 1856-1913. Papers, 1881-1885.

Title: Papers, 1881-1885.

Letter to Niles from Professor Edward North of Hamilton College and letter to Niles' cousin W.H. Niles from S.N.D. North, recording secretary of the Oneida Historical Society, concerning Niles' appearance before the society to present a paper on Samson Occom.

ArchivalResource: 3 items ; 22 x 28 cm. and smaller.

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Occom, Samson, 1723-1792. Letter of Samson Occom, 1770.

Title: Letter of Samson Occom, 1770.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Whitaker, Nathaniel, 1730-1795. Letter, 1766 September 6, Bristol, to Eleazar Wheelock, Conn.

Title: Letter, 1766 September 6, Bristol, to Eleazar Wheelock, Conn.

Is trying to collect money for the cause. Mr. Oliver and Mr. Mauduit raise opposition. Mr. Occum is going to Great Britain.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves. 22 x 36 cm.

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Whitefield, George. George Whitefield letter, 1766 February 27, to Peter Van Brugh Livingston.

Title: George Whitefield letter, 1766 February 27, to Peter Van Brugh Livingston.

Whitefield, in London, wrote to New York merchant Livingston about the welcome Samson Occum for his preaching and how he had dined with Lord Dartmouth and was scheduled to meet the King. Whitefield mentioned that the King supported Eleazar Wheelock's efforts to convert the Indians.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Trumbull, Jonathan, 1710-1785. Mohegan Indian documents, 1719-1791.

Title: Mohegan Indian documents, 1719-1791.

Census of the Mohegans living in Mohegan at New London, December 16-17, 1755. This document has meeting notes from the previous year discussing the census. It contains a list of the names of all the Indians living in the area at the time. Also, Act of Assembly at Hartford in favor of Benjamin Uncas, Sachem, forbidding the cutting of wood by settlers in tribal lands at Mohegan, May 3, 1759; complaint against Samson Occom addressed to the Governor of the General Assembly of Connecticut and Peter Socomawas, signed by Zachery Johnston, Lymon Coyoy, Noak Uncas, Abimel Uncas, Peter Atumass, Lymon Coyoi Farr, May 28, 1771; letter from Jonathan Trumbull, at Lebanon, to Peter Socomwas, at Mohegan, by hand of Councilor Zachery, September 26, 1772, in regards to building of houses by Indians; petition to Assembly at New Haven that privileges be not taken away, signed Mohegans, Nahanticks, September 7, 1786, in which the writers are asking for natural privileges like hunting and fishing on their land to be unhindered and not forbidden. They mention going to war for the government and ask why after being willing to die fighting for the country they are no longer being given the rights that their forefathers had. Also last will and testament of Henry Coequied, April 15, 1791.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

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Kelly, Eric Philbrook, 1884-1960. Letter, 1958 February 1, Youngtown, Ariz., to Edward Lathem, Hanover, N.H.

Title: Letter, 1958 February 1, Youngtown, Ariz., to Edward Lathem, Hanover, N.H.

Mentions various people relating to Dartmouth; Burns article in Library Bulletin; Mildred Crosby's anecdotes; Occom; and L.B. Richardson.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. 28 cm.

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Occom, Samson, 1723-1792. Letter, [176-?], to Mrs. Mary Occom, at Mohegan in New London, Connecticut.

Title: Letter, [176-?], to Mrs. Mary Occom, at Mohegan in New London, Connecticut.

Emotional letter to his wife, acknowledging the burden of caring for their children in his absence, and stressing his feelings for his family and the importance of faith and his ministry.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Woodward, Joseph G. (Joseph Gurley),. Woodward collection, 1728-1776.

Title: Woodward collection, 1728-1776.

Papers relating to Windham County history.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

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Welles family. Welles family papers, 1673-1955.

Title: Welles family papers, 1673-1955.

Primarily papers of Solomon and Gideon Welles of Wethersfield, Connecticut. Consists of correspondence to Solomon Welles, one dated 1784 from Samson Occom about religious services in Albany, New York, and two from Solomon's brother Gideon of Canterbury, Connecticut; a Justice of the Peace record of Solomon Welles and a notebook that includes notations on his children's births and marriages; military records; deeds to and from Gideon Welles; ships' papers and customs documents for the Sloop Fair Trader , the Schooner Oliver, and the Sloop Dolphin, commanded by Captain Edward Bulkley, who sailed to the West Indies, once for transporting six Negroes; estate records of Gideon Welles; and assorted legal documents. Also correspondence of Lemuel A. Welles and notes and correspondence of Florence Welles Carpenter regarding the history of the Welles, Carpenter, Griswold, Harris, Pilsbury and Warner families. Also typescripts and Photostats of the original documents.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet (1 box, 1 oversized folder).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276781930 View

Hosmer, James Bidwell, 1781-1878. Autograph collection, 1750-1863.

Title: Autograph collection, 1750-1863.

Collection of autographs cut from letters; includes letter from Eleazer Wheelock to Samson Occom strongly urging him to continue studying for the ministry rather than teaching.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 38 cm.

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Papers, 1761-1985, 1761-1782 (bulk)

Title: Papers, 1761-1985, 1761-1782 (bulk)

Sermons, both manuscript and printed, of the Rev. Samuel Buell and of the Rev. Samson Occom, a Mohegan Indian who preached among the Montauks of eastern Long Island. Also, letters concerning the sermons; and a manuscript entitled "A Faithful Narrative of the Extraordinary Work of the Spirit of God at East-hampton," 1764, and other writings on religious activity on Long Island.

ArchivalResource: .4 cubic ft.

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