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Occom, Samson (1723–1792)| US Mohegan educator and Presbyterian religious leader. Ordained by the Long Island Presbytery (1759), he travelled to England in 1765 to raise money for Wheelock's Indian Charity School (later Dartmouth College), becoming the first American Indian to preach in that country. He helped to create the Brotherton Community of Indians in Oneida County, New York (1786). He was born near present-day New London, Connecticut. |
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