Paul Cuffe: born to a Wampanoag mother and an Akan father, married a Wampanoag wife (Cuttyhunk, Massachusetts, 1759; marriage 1783)
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Year: 1759 · Places: Northeast, Africa
SUMMARYPaul Cuffe: born to a Wampanoag mother and an Akan father, married a Wampanoag wife (Cuttyhunk, Massachusetts, 1759; marriage 1783) [Connections: Northeast & Mid-Atlantic, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDPaul Cuffe was born January 17, 1759, on Cuttyhunk to Kofi (Coffe) Slocum, an Ashanti/Akan man shipped to Newport about 1720 and freed about 1745, and Ruth Moses, a Wampanoag woman from Harwich on Cape Cod. On February 25, 1783 he married Alice Abel Pequit, a Wampanoag widow. Wikipedia calls him a "Black American and Wampanoag businessman, whaler and abolitionist."
PATTERNThe best-known early "Black" captain and Pan-Africanist was Wampanoag on his mother's side and married into the nation
LENS (WW9)A Wampanoag mother's son is remembered as a "Black" captain, which is the renaming in one person
OPENFind primary records of Ruth Moses's Wampanoag status (Dartmouth/Westport records; Cole, Gifford and Slade, "New Revelations from Old Deeds," 2019)
SOURCEWikipedia, Paul Cuffe (cites Lamont D. Thomas, Paul Cuffe (1988); Rosalind Cobb Wiggins, ed., Captain Paul Cuffe's Logs and Letters (1996)).