Occom, Samson 1723-1792

The Reverend Samson Occom (1723 – 1792) (also misspelled as Occum) was a Native American Presbyterian clergyman and a member of the Mohegan nation near New London, Connecticut. He has the distinction of being the first Native American person to ever publish documents and pamphlets in English.

Samson Occom and the Christian Indians of New England c1899 - Love, William DeLoss, 1851-1918

History of the Indians of Connecticut from the earliest known period to 1850‎ - Page 454
John William De Forest - 1853 - 509 pages

The history of missions: or, Of the propagation of Christianity ..., Volume 2‎ - Page 489
William Brown (M.D.), Adam Clarke - 1816

Biographical Sketch of Samson Occom: at Encyclopedia.Com

Annals of the American Pulpit, Volume 3 - 1860 (see page 192)

Works of Samson Occom

A Choice Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs, New London, Connecticut : Press of Thomas and Samual Green, 1774.

A Sermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, An Indian Who Was Executed at New Haven on the 2nd of September 1772 for the Murder of Mr. Moses Cook, late of Waterbury, on the 7th of December 1771, New Haven : Press of Thomas and Samual Green, 1774.

A Short Narrative of My Life. The Elders Wrote: An Anthology of Early Prose by North American Indians 1768-1931. Ed. Bernd Peyer. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1982 [1762], 12-18. (The 10-page A Short Narrative of My Life was kept in Dartmouth College's archive collection until publication in 1982. This work has also recently been published in The Norton Anthology of American Literature.)

Journals, 1754 and 1786(?), Unpublished manuscript in collection of New London County Historical Society.

Herbs and Roots, Unpublished manuscript in collection of New London County Historical Society.