[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. [62] _Second Annual Report of the American Colonization Society_, 152, 153. [63] See also Brown, _Finley_, note L. [64] _First Annual Report of the American Colonization Society_, 5. [65] Memorandum in the _Cuffe Manuscripts_. [66] Cf. _Cuffe Manuscripts_, John Cuffe to Freelove Cuffe, September 10, 1817; David Cuffe, Jr., to Freelove Cuffe, July 8, 1817. [67] Clipping in the _Cuffe Manuscripts_. [68] Peter Williams, _Discourse on the Death of Paul Cuffe_. [69] _Niles Register_, XIII, 64. [70] _Cuffe Manuscripts_, Clipping from _Columbian Sentinel_, September 17, 1817. [71] _Ibid._, Clipping from _The Colonization Herald_. [72] _Cuffe Manuscripts_, Clipping from _New York Spectator_, October, 1817. DOCUMENTS THE WILL OF PAUL CUFFE Be it remembered, that I, Paul Cuffe of Westport in the County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, yeoman, being at this time (through mercy) in health and of a sound, disposing mind and memory, and considering that it is appointed for all men once to die, I do make and ordain this my last will and testament in the followering manner (viz.) Imprimis. My will is, and I hearin order, that my just debts and funeral charges together with the expenses of setteling my estate be paid by my executors herein after named, out of my estate. Item. I give unto my wife Alice Cuffe all my houshould goods except my two desks and book case, and books; I also give her in lieu of her right of dower in my estate, so long as she shall remain my widow, the use and improvement of my now dwelling house and the one half of all my lands, together with one half of the live stock, and all the famely provisions that may be on hand at my decease, and one hundred dollars in money, and all the profits arising from my half of the salt works, that Joseph Tripp & I built together. Should the salt works not be in operation before this will is proved or should not be built, then my will is she should have one hundred dollars annually. Item. I give unto my daughter in law Lydia Wainer one hundred dollars. Item. I give unto my daughter Mary Phelpess & to her heirs and assigns forever, the house and lot of land which I bought of Lucy Castino.