| A Note on the Texts | p. xvii |
| Chronology | p. xxi |
| Abbreviations | p. xxvii |
| "This Indian World": An Introduction to the Writings of Samson Occom | p. 3 |
| Prose | |
| Temperance Hannabal (February 7 or 9, 1754) | p. 44 |
| Herbs and Roots (1754) | p. 44 |
| Account of the Montauk Indians, on Long Island (1761) | p. 47 |
| Autobiographical Narrative, First Draft (November 28, 1765) | p. 51 |
| Autobiographical Narrative, Second Draft (September 17, 1768) | p. 52 |
| "The most remarkable and Strange State Situation and Appearence of Indian Tribes in this Great Continent" (1783) | p. 58 |
| Letters | |
| To Solomon Williams (November 1, 1752) | p. 64 |
| To "Madam" (1756) | p. 65 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (November 12, 1756) | p. 65 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (January 14, 1760) | p. 66 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (June 24, 1761) | p. 67 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (September 25, 1761) | p. 68 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (May 12, 1762) | p. 69 |
| To Mary Fowler Occom (June 1, 1763) | p. 70 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (February 8, 1764) | p. 70 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (May 7, 1764) | p. 71 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (August 22, 1764) | p. 71 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (August 1764) | p. 72 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (October 4, 1765) | p. 73 |
| To the Connecticut Board of Correspondents (November 21, 1765) | p. 73 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (December 6, 1765) | p. 74 |
| To Nathaniel Shaw (December 17, 1765) | p. 75 |
| To Samuell Buell (March 8, 1766) | p. 76 |
| To Mary Fowler Occom (March 11, 1766) | p. 76 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (May 30, 1766) | p. 77 |
| To Mary Fowler Occom and Esther Poquiantup Fowler (1766) | p. 78 |
| To Mary Fowler Occom (January 21, 1767) | p. 78 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (February 12, 1767) | p. 79 |
| To Mary Fowler Occom (1767) | p. 80 |
| To Mary Fowler Occom (1767) | p. 80 |
| To Robert Keen (September 1768) | p. 81 |
| To Robert Keen (September 27, 1768) | p. 83 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (November 12, 1768) | p. 84 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (December 28, 1768) | p. 84 |
| To Robert Clelland (1768) | p. 85 |
| "They don't want the Indians to go to Heaven with them" (1768) | p. 86 |
| To the Connecticut Board of Correspondents of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge (SPCK) (January 4, 1769) | p. 87 |
| To the Long Island Presbytery (1769) | p. 87 |
| To Nathaniel Champlin (February 23, 1769) | p. 88 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (March 17, 1769) | p. 89 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (July 1, 1769) | p. 90 |
| "Your Good Offer" (January 15, 1770) | p. 90 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (March 6, 1770) | p. 91 |
| "The Flame of Friendship" (June 9, 1770) | p. 92 |
| To Joseph Fish (November 16, 1770) | p. 93 |
| To Benjamin Forfitt (March 4, 1771) | p. 94 |
| To Susannah Wheatley (March 5, 1771) | p. 96 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (July 24, 1771) | p. 98 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (July 13, 1772) | p. 100 |
| To Andrew Gifford (October 19, 1772) | p. 101 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (January 27, 1773) | p. 102 |
| To Samuel Buell (1773) | p. 103 |
| To Rev. John Moorhead (April 10, 1773) | p. 104 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (June 1, 1773) | p. 105 |
| To Susannah Wheatley (September 21, 1773) | p. 106 |
| To the Officers of the English Trust for Moor's Indian Charity School (November 10, 1773) | p. 107 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (January 6, 1774) | p. 109 |
| To Eleazar Wheelock (March 14, 1774) | p. 110 |
| To Joseph Johnson (April 14, 1775) | p. 111 |
| To the Oneida Tribe (1775) | p. 111 |
| To John Thornton (1776) | p. 113 |
| To John Thornton (January 1, 1777) | p. 113 |
| To Benjamin Lathrop (January 8, 1778) | p. 115 |
| To Benoni Occom (June 24, 1780) | p. 116 |
| To John Bailey (1783) | p. 118 |
| Recommendation of Eliphalet Lester (1783 or 1784) | p. 120 |
| To John Bailey (1784) | p. 121 |
| To Benjamin Garrett (August 21, 1784) | p. 123 |
| To Solomon Welles (September 26, 1784) | p. 124 |
| To the Trustees of Easthampton, Long Island (1784?) | p. 126 |
| To Samuel Buell (February 1786?) | p. 127 |
| "Is there no redress for the Indians?" (1788?) | p. 128 |
| To the Friends in Philadelphia (February 22, 1788) | p. 128 |
| To John Rodgers (May 12, 1788) | p. 129 |
| To Jedediah Chapman (June 1790) | p. 130 |
| To Benoni Occom (December 1790) | p. 131 |
| To Benoni Occom (January 17, 1791) | p. 131 |
| "Sorrow fills our Hearts" (1791) | p. 132 |
| "Indians must have Teachers of their own Coular or Nation" (November 1791) | p. 133 |
| To the New Stockbridge Community (December 1791) | p. 135 |
| "Steady in Religion" (December 26, 1791) | p. 136 |
| To New York Governor George Clinton (1792) | p. 137 |
| Petitions and Tribal Documents | |
| Mohegan Tribe to Sir William Johnson (1764) | p. 144 |
| Mohegan Tribe against Robert Clelland (April 26, 1764) | p. 145 |
| Mohegan Tribe Standing Agreements (1773) | p. 146 |
| Mohegan Tribe to Colonial Overseer (1774) | p. 147 |
| Mohegan Tribe on Rents (April 28, 1778) | p. 147 |
| Mohegan and Niantic Tribes to the Connecticut Assembly (May 1785) | p. 147 |
| Brotherton Tribe to United States Congress (1785?) | p. 148 |
| Montaukett Tribe to the State of New York (1785?) | p. 150 |
| Shinnecock Tribe to the State of New York (1787 or 1788) | p. 152 |
| Mahican-Stockbridge Tribe to Samson Occom (August 27, 1787) | p. 153 |
| Mahican-Stockbridge and Brotherton Tribes to all Benevolent Gentlemen (November 28-29, 1787) | p. 155 |
| Mohegans to Richard Law (December 5, 1789) | p. 156 |
| Brotherton Tribe to the New York State Assembly (January 1791) | p. 157 |
| Sermons | |
| "Saying what think ye of Christ" (I), Matthew 22:42 (1759) | p. 166 |
| "Awake thou that Sleepest," Ephesians 5:14 (1760) | p. 166 |
| "Turn ye turn from your evil ways," Ezekiel 33:11 (1765) | p. 170 |
| "Fight the good fight of faith," 1 Timothy 6:12 (July 13, 1766) | p. 172 |
| "In Christ, he is a new Creature," 2 Corinthians 5:17 (July 13, 1766) | p. 173 |
| "Saying what think ye of Christ" (II), Matthew 22:42 (1766-1768) | p. 174 |
| A Sermon, Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, An Indian (1772) | p. 176 |
| "To all the Indians in this Boundless Continent" (1784) | p. 196 |
| "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin," Daniel 5:25 (1785-1787?) | p. 198 |
| "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," Luke 10: 26-27 (May 13, 1787?) | p. 199 |
| "And, behold, I come quickly," Revelation 22:12 (August 19, 1787?) | p. 207 |
| "Whither shall I go from thy spirit?," Psalms 139:7 (n.d.) | p. 209 |
| "I Sat under his Shadow with Great Delight," Canticles 2:3 (n.d.) | p. 210 |
| "Cry aloud, Spare not" (I), Isaiah 58:1 (n.d.) | p. 210 |
| "Cry aloud, Spare not" (II), Isaiah 58:1 (n.d.) | p. 214 |
| "Wo unto him that givest his Neighbour Drink," Habakkuk 2:15 and Isaiah 5:11, 22 (n.d.) | p. 218 |
| "Saying What think ye of Christ" (III), Matthew 22:42 (n.d.) | p. 219 |
| "Giving thanks always for all things unto God," Ephesians 5:20 (n.d.) | p. 220 |
| "Stand fast therefore in Liberty," Galatians 5:1 (n.d.) | p. 223 |
| "When he drowned his Reason" (n.d.) | p. 226 |
| Hymns | |
| Preface to A Choice Collection of Hymns and Sacred Songs (1774) | p. 233 |
| "The Sufferings of Christ," or, "Throughout the Saviour's Life We Trace" | p. 234 |
| "The Slow Traveller," or, "O Happy Souls How Fast You Go" | p. 235 |
| "A Morning Hymn," or, "Now the Shades of Night Are Gone" | p. 235 |
| "A Son's Farewell," or, "I Hear the Gospel's Joyful Sound" | p. 236 |
| "Conversion Song," or, "Wak'd by the Gospel's Joyful Sound" | p. 237 |
| "Come All My Young Companions, Come" | p. 238 |
| Journals | |
| December 6, 1743-November 29, 1748 | p. 248 |
| June 21, 1750-February 9, 1751 | p. 251 |
| June 28, 1757-September 25, 1760 | p. 252 |
| May 30, 1761-July 7, 1761 | p. 259 |
| September 15, 1761-October 22, 1761 | p. 263 |
| November 21, 1765-July 22, 1766 | p. 264 |
| July 8, 1774-August 14, 1774 | p. 274 |
| December 22, 1774-February 9, 1775 | p. 278 |
| September 13, 1777-September 26, 1777 | p. 284 |
| May 8, 1784-April 26, 1785 | p. 285 |
| May 1, 1785-October 3, 1785 | p. 293 |
| October 4, 1785-December 4, 1785 | p. 301 |
| December 5, 1785-December 14, 1785 | p. 313 |
| December 15, 1785-January 22, 1786 | p. 316 |
| January 23, 1786-April 26, 1786 | p. 325 |
| June 26, 1786-December 10, 1786 | p. 336 |
| December 11, 1786-April 7, 1787 | p. 353 |
| April 6, 1787-July 4, 1787 | p. 360 |
| July 5, 1787-September 16, 1787 | p. 372 |
| September 20, 1787-December 5, 1787 | p. 378 |
| December 11, 1787-August 10, 1788 | p. 385 |
| May 11, 1789-October 9, 1789 | p. 405 |
| October 13, 1789-January 10, 1790 | p. 409 |
| February 21, 1790-March 6, 1790 | p. 411 |
| Individuals Named in Occom's Writings | p. 413 |
| Bibliography | p. 427 |
| Index | p. 437 |
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