[14] Paul Cuffe to John and Jenny Cuffe, September 8, 1808.

[10] Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 186, 134-136.

[11] The quoted documents relating to the question of taxation are in the Records of the Court of General Sessions, Taunton, Mass. They were examined for the writer by Professor Arthur Buffinton of Williams College.

[13] William Armistead, Memoir of Paul Cuffe (London, 1846), 23.

[17] For an extended account of these movements see H. N. Sherwood, Early Negro Deportation Projects, in Mississippi Valley Historical Review, II, 484 et seq.

[18] The Case of our Fellow Creatures, the Oppressed Africans, respectfully recommended to the serious Consideration of the Legislature of Great Britain, London, 1784.

[19] In the Cuffe Manuscripts.

[20] Life of William Allen with Selections from His Correspondence. (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1847), I, 85, 86.

[21] In Cuffe Manuscripts. Dated January 5, 1811.

[22] The Journal is in the Cuffe Manuscripts.