[1] Cuffe Manuscripts, New Bedford, Massachusetts, Public Library, from the bill of sale.
[2] Ruth Cuffe to Joseph Congdon, February 12, 1851.
[3] Dartmouth, Massachusetts, Town Book of Records for Entries of Intention of Marriage.
[4] Cuffe Manuscripts, Memorandum of family marriages.
[5] Book of Bristol County Land Records, Vol. 50, 478, 479.
[6] His commercial activities are well told in Memoirs of Paul Cuffe, York, 1812.
[7] See W. J. Allison in Non-Slaveholder, December, 1850.
[8] Ibid.
[9] Peter Williams, Discourse on the Death of Paul Cuffe, delivered before the New York African Institution, October 21, 1817.
[12] Memoirs of Paul Cuffe, 14, 15.