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Samson Occom , 1723-92, Native American clergyman, b. near Norwich, Conn. He became one of the first pupils of Eleazer Wheelock , and in 1749 he went to Long Island, N.Y., to serve the Montauk as pastor and schoolmaster. Occom was ordained in 1759, and later he went (1766) to England to help raise the funds used to establish Dartmouth College.

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Occom, Samson (1723–92),Mohegan Indian of Connecticut, was converted to Christianity by Whitefield (1739) and educated by Eleazar Wheelock. He preached to the Montauk, Stockbridge, and other Indians, received Presbyterian orders (1759), and visited England (1766–67), where he preached to raise money for Dartmouth College. He edited a Choice Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1774), and several hymns are attributed to him.

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	The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility.(Book Review) Magazine article from: Early American Literature; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...later as the concluding statement to Samson Occom's manuscript Personal Narrative. "They have used me thus," Occom complains of the New England missionary...am a poor Indian." Worse still, Occom protests, "I did not make myself...
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	American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures.(Book review) Magazine article from: Church History; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...characterize the Mohegan Presbyterian Samson Occom, the free black Loyalist and evangelical...chapter-length close readings of Occom's hymnody, Marrant's sermons...moments in American literary history. Occom, in composing hymns, becomes the...
	Margaret Connell Szasz. Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.(Book review) Magazine article from: Michigan Historical Review; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...of the famous Native American Protestant minister, Samson Occom. Occom sought to raise funds to support Eleazar Wheelock...against British authority in the region just years before Occom visited Scotland and the SSPCK decided to end its insistence...
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