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Last name Cuffee
First name Paul
Display name Captain Paul Cuffe
Birth date 1759
Death date 1817
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, wampa
Bio 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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Life of Thomas Eddy