Occom, Samson
Occom or Occum, Samson
(both: ŏk`əm), 1723–92, Native American clergyman, b. near Norwich, Conn. He became one of the first pupils of Eleazer WheelockWheelock, Eleazar, 1711–79, American clergyman, founder of Dartmouth College, b. Windham, Conn., grad. Yale, 1733. He became (1735) the pastor of a Congregational church in the part of Lebanon, Conn., that is now Columbia.
..... Click the link for more information. , and in 1749 he went to Long Island, N.Y., to serve the Montauk as pastor and schoolmaster. Occom was ordained in 1759, and later he went (1766) to England to help raise the funds used to establish Dartmouth College.