Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-16

1 styled the Daniel of the age, the truly noble Lord Dartmouth"
 At 'the solicitation of the Earl of Dartmouth, the king made a donation of about s1,000, and in a short time | there was collected in England and Scotland about S5O,000 for the support and enlargement of the Indian school. The success of the mission was. in A great measure attributed to Mir Occum. The funds thus collected were employ- ed founding Dartmouth college called after the name of the Earl of Dart mouth.7
 Several Indians. educated as teach
 CTS, were sent from this school to the
 Oneidas.
 On his return from Europe Mir. Oc- cum resumed his missionary labors and
 with a portion of the Mohegans under
 his care he removed from the vicinity
 where he settled. at place called
 Brothertown. and where he died in
 July, 1792, aged about 69 years.
 The father Of Samson Occum was
 Mohegan and his mother was a Groton
 Indian. Her name was Sarah and she is said to have been a descendant of Un@as. which may have been true. She was probably of the Samson fam fly. which led her to so name her son.
 Between the town plot and the city but included within the limits of the latter, is that beautiful part of Nor wien called the Little Plain; the Mo hogan Plain would be a more appropri- ate designation, since this spot ap- pears to have. been the favorite resort of the hegans-beloved and vcner- ated by them above IaI others. and chosen for their last resting pace, where, removed from all inferior so- c1ety, they might repose among their kindred in royal seclusion.. The east ern. side of the plain is skirted by a rocky woodland ridge: the western is bordered by the upper part of the r alls village. On the northwest. where it approaches the Yantic and the low meadows called Noman's Acre. a rural cemetery has been recently laid out It was corSecrated in Juy, 1S44 the ser vices being performed by union of all denominations of Christians in town The location is beautiful. and when the young trees shall entwine their roots with the sacred dust" and overshadow the grassy mounds and sculptured monuments of the future dead, it will be an ornament to the city and hallOwed place of resort to it's inhabitants.
 On this plain, and in it's vicinity, are many elegant private mansfols-a small but tasteful church, and the In- dian burial ground shaded by a grove Of trees between whose shafts rises the granite obeIisk that comm emora tes the name of Uncas. The cornerstone of this monument was laid by Presi- dent Jackson in 1893. The obelisk was contributed by the ladies of Norwich and the. whole enterprise completed and commemOrated July f, 1S42.
 It is not known for how long a pe- riod before Uncas the Mohegans had brought their sachems to this place fo1, internent, but it is generally supposed that at the time of the settlement the graves covered a couple of acres and that the whole plain was originally chosen for the royai cemetery. If the dust of the old sachems could rise up bodily from their graves, said an aged man. I have no doubt but we should see them ascending here and there, l far towards the center of the plain.
 In the eastern part of Norwich, in. | B bend of the ShetucI<et is a plain | which ever since the settlement of Nor | wich has gone by the name of Sa-