Samson Occom's Account of the Death of a Christian Mohegan Indian

Title: Samson Occom's Account of the Death of a Christian Mohegan Indian
Creator: Occom, Samson, 1723-1792 (Author); Smith [Fielding], Fidelia Ann Hoscott (Author)
Type of Resource: text
Collection: Yale Indian Papers Project
Language: English
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Digcoll: digcoll:923099
Funding Source: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Place of Origin: Montville, Connecticut
Other Dates: 1804 (Mentioned); 1820 (Mentioned); 1833 (Mentioned); 1837 (Mentioned); 1846 (Mentioned); April 2, 1840 (Mentioned); January 14, 1837 (Mentioned); June 7, 1831 (Mentioned); March 20, 1825 (Mentioned); May 15, 1843 (Mentioned); September 15, 1828 (Mentioned)
Original Repository: Thomas Leffingwell House Museum
Tribe: Mohegan
Associated Names: Ashbow [Brushell Uncas], Hannah (c. 1769-c.1832) (Mentioned within document); Ashbow Shantup, Hannah (wife of Joseph) (Mentioned within document); Ashbow, Betty (wife of Rob) (Mentioned within document); Ashbow, daughter of Robert and Betty, d. 1776 (Mentioned within document); Ashbow, Jerusha (Mentioned within document); Ashbow, Joel (son of Rob and Betty), 1763- (Mentioned within document); Ashbow, Robert (hus of Betty) (Mentioned within document); Ashbow, Samuel, 1718-1795 (Mentioned within document); Ashbow, Samuel, Jr., -1775 (Mentioned within document); Babbit, Adelaide Virginia (1840-1906) (Mentioned within document); Baker, Henry Greenwood (1832-1903) (Mentioned within document); Church [Babbit], Hannah Ann (1820-1903) (Mentioned within document); Fitch, John Gardiner (1798-1875) (Mentioned within document); Hoscott, Samuel (1792-1831) (Mentioned within document); Mamamonash, Hannah (Mentioned within document); Newton, Emily J (Mentioned within document); Occuish, Philip, 1716-1789 (Mentioned within document); Shantup, Martha (dau. of Jos. and Hannah), 1766- (Mentioned within document); Smith, Bartholomew Valentine Tantaquidgeon (c. 1811-1843) (Mentioned within document); Wyyougs, Charles (1808-1837) (Mentioned within document)
Date Created: December 24, 1776
Date: December 24, 1776
Genre: Journal/Diary Entry
Topics: Abstract Ideas -- Conversion; Abstract Ideas -- Piety; Abstract Ideas -- Reputation; Culture -- Community; Culture -- Death; Culture -- Family -- Kinship; Culture -- Genealogy; Culture -- Religion/Beliefs; Culture -- Travel; Disease/Illness -- Deaths; Disease/Illness -- Sickness; Employment -- Maritime; Genealogy; Government -- State -- Connecticut -- Agencies -- Overseers; Land -- Conveyances -- Sale; Land -- Reservation/Reserve -- Mohegan; Literature -- Religious Education -- Deathbed Accounts; Religion/Beliefs -- Christianity -- Church Membership; Religion/Beliefs -- Christianity -- Deathbed Accounts; Religion/Beliefs -- Christianity -- Visions; Religion/Beliefs -- Christianity; Religion/Beliefs -- Visions; Repository -- Thomas Leffingwell House Museum; Tribes/Communities -- Mohegan; Vital Records -- Births; Vital Records -- Deaths -- Unknown; YIPP -- Colony of Connecticut Collection, 1603-1783; YIPP -- State of Connecticut Collection, 1784-1869
Place: North America -- British Empire -- Colony of Connecticut -- Mohegan; North America -- Indian Country -- Mohegan Territory -- Mohegan; North America -- Indian Country -- Mohegan Territory; North America -- United States of America -- State of Connecticut -- Montville; North America -- United States of America -- State of Connecticut -- Montville; North America -- United States of America -- State of Connecticut -- New London
Volume: M 017, Accession 1954.73
Identifier: 12214786
number: 1776.12.24.00

Item sets: Yale Indian Papers Project

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