ist in their heathenish ways, and my parents in
particular were very strong in the customs of their forefathers, and
they led a wandering life up and down in the wilderness, for my father
was a great hunter. Thus I lived with them till I was sixteen years
old, and then there was a great stir of religion in these parts of the
world both amongst the Indians as well as the English, and about this
time I began to think about the Christian religion, and was under
great trouble of mind for some time. I thought the religion which I
heard at this time was a new thing among mankind, such as they never
heard the like before, so ignorant was I, and when I was seventeen
years of age I received a hope, and as I begun to think about
religion, so I began to learn to read, though I went to no school till
I was in my nineteenth year, and then I went to the Rev. Mr.
Wheelock's to learning, and spent four years there, and was very
weakly most of the time; this is the true account of my education.

Samson Occom.

"Boston, Nov. 28, 1765."

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Mr. Occom spent the closing years of a useful life at Brotherton, N.
Y., where he died, in 1792, aged nearly seventy.

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"A List of Charity Scholars (in Rev. E. Wheelock's School), from 1754
to 1767:

John Pumpshire, a Delaware.
Jacob Woolley, a Delaware.
Samson Woyboy.
Joseph Woolley, a Delaware.
Hezekiah Calvin, a Delaware.
Joseph Johnson, a Mohegan.
David Fowler, a Montauk.
Aaron Occom, a Mohegan.
Samuel Kirtland, of Norwich.
Isaiah Uncas, a Mohegan.
Amie Johnson, a Mohegan.
Joseph Brant, }
Negyes ----, } Mohawks.
Center ----, dead, }
Miriam Stores, a Delaware.
Moses ----, } Mohawks.
Johannes ----, }
Sarah Wyog, a Mohegan.
Enoch Closs, a Delaware.
Samuel Tallman, a Delaware.
Daniel Mossock, a Farmington.
Abraham Primus, }
Abraham Secundus, } Mohawks.
Peter ----, }
Patience Johnson, a Mohegan.
Samuel Gray, of Boston.
Mr. Samuel Ashpo, a Mohegan.
Eleazar Sweetland, of Andover.
Jacob Fowler, a Montauk.
Manuel Simon, a Narraganset.
Hannah Poquiantus, a Nehantic.
Hannah Garret, a Narraganset.
Mary Sequettass, a Narraganset.
David Avery, of Norwich.
David McCluer, of Boston.
Mr. Titus Smith, of South Hadley.
Willi