Samson Occom

Samson Occom (1723-92) was an American Indian preacher. He have preached at Broughton at the request of Whitefield, who had been instrumental in his conversion and his coming to England with the Rev. Nathaniel Whitaker in February 1766.  Money was being raised for Eleazar Wheelock’s school in Connecticut, which later became Dartmouth College (named after Lord Dartmouth, who contributed greatly at Whitefield’s request to the school).  The Steele's no doubt contributed generously to the fund-raising effort. See John Broome, A Bruised Reed: The Life and Times of Anne Steele. (Harpenden: Gospel Standard Trust Publications, 2007), 186.