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. |