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Paul Cuffee



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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1759

Birth Place: Unknown

Death Date: 1817

Death Place: Unknown

Affiliations: Society of Friends

Notes: Sea captain. Born in Massachusetts in 1759, the son of John Cuffe, an Ashanti, and Ruth Moses, of Wampanoag descent. Married to Alice Pequit, also a Wampanoag, in 1783. Became a member of the Society of Friends in 1808 and then a minister. Died in 1817 in Westport, Massachusetts, at the age of 59 years.

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