Ministry and Later Life
Upon his return from England, Occom lived with the Mohegan. He worked to organize remnant peoples of New England and Long Island Indians into a new tribe called the Brothertown Indians. They migrated to the Oneida reservation in central New York state in 1785, where the tribe was formalized. Also Christian, the Oneida had offered land to the Brothertown Indians on their reservation, and their settlement was named "Brothertown." The Oneida also invited other Christian Indians to live with them, namely the Stockbridge Mohican from western Massachusetts and two Lenape groups from New Jersey. The Mohicans founded what they called New Stockbridge in New York, near Oneida Lake.
Occom died on July 14, 1792, in New Stockbridge, New York. He is buried just off of Bogusville Hill Road outside of Deansboro, New York (formerly known as Brothertown).
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