The petitions referred to in Chapter II are with the Cuffe papers. A copy of the one presented to the Probate Court of Massachusetts Bay was furnished by Mr. James J. Tracey, Chief of the Archives Division, State House, Boston. The story of the lawsuit related in this same chapter is based on the original papers to be found in the records of the Bristol County, Taunton, Massachusetts, Probate Court. They were examined for me by my Harvard classmate, Professor Arthur Buffinton of Williams College. I have previously published two articles bearing on this study. Early Negro Deportation Projects appeared in the _Mississippi Valley Historical Review_ for March, 1916, the Formation of the American Colonization Society in the _Journal of Negro History_ for July, 1917. A third article, PAUL CUFFE AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY, in volume six of the _Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Society_, was an attempt to bring together a full statement of his life and service. Since the publication of this study I found the original Cuffe Papers and have made use of them in this biography. Another source of great help was the _Life of William Allen with Selections from his Correspondence_, 2 vols., Philadelphia, 1847. A full account of the services in connection with the memorial monument erected by Mr. Horatio P. Howard is contained in the _New Bedford Morning Mercury_ and the _New Bedford Standard_ for June 16, 1917. [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. [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_.