[52] Ibid., Paul Cuffe to the Imposter, January 13, 1817.

[53] For an extended account of the activities mentioned in this paragraph see N. H. Sherwood, The Formation of the American Colonization Society, in The Journal of Negro History, July, 1917.

[54] Cuffe Manuscripts, Robert Finley to Paul Cuffe, December 5, 1816.

[55] Cuffe Manuscripts, Samuel J. Mills to Paul Cuffe, March 12, 1817. See also Richard, Life of Samuel J. Mills (Boston, 1906); Spring, Memoir of Mills (Boston and New York, 1829); Brown, Biography of Robert Finley (Philadelphia, 1857).

[56] Brown, Finley, 83.

[57] Cuffe Manuscripts, Samuel J. Mills to Paul Cuffe, March 12, 1817.

[58] Ibid., James Forten to Paul Cuffe, January 25, 1817.

[59] Cuffe Manuscripts, Samuel J. Mills to Paul Cuffe, July 14, 1817.

[60] Second Annual Report of the American Colonization Society, 151.

[61] Ibid., 150.