"Samson Occum's House At Mohegan" - PAGE 18b
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Collection: Rare Eastern Indian Photo Series, Set 3
Type Of Material: Photograph
Total Number Of Pages: 1
Source: Scanned from the original photograph which is 10 inches in width and 8 inches in height.
Language: English
Coverage: Mohegan Hill, Uncasville, C.T.
Creators:
Red Thunder Cloud [Cromwell Ashbie Hawkins West]
Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions
Description: The reverse reads:
"Samson Occum, the Mohegan minister, aided by his tribesmen, built this house which stood on a hill side about half a mile north of the present Mohegan Chapel and east of the Norwich and New London turnpike.
The home was well built and clapboarded with cedar. It cost over 100 pounds and was once a very famous landmark. In 1772 Messrs. McClure and Frisbie tarried there overnite and the former wrote in his diary, "His house was a decent two-story building. We lodged in a good featherbed in a chamber papered and painted; adjoining was his library of a handsome collection, brought by him principally from Great Britain.""
Subject(s):
Mohegan Indians - Houses
List Of Pages (in order of original appearance)
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