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[Samson Occum]

Witness to the Faith in New England, 1792

Samson Occum, the first ordained Native American minister, was born a member of the Mohegan nation near New London, Connecticut in 1723. By the age of sixteen, Occum has been exposed to the evangelical preaching of the Great Awakening. In 1743 he began studying theology at the school of congregational minister Eleazar Wheelock, later founder of Dartmouth College.

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