Paul Cuffe

Paul Cuffe, the Pequot mariner distinguished from his better-known father of the same name, recounts decades at sea in Narrative Of The Life And Adventures Of Paul Cuffe. Born in Westport, Massachusetts, he dates his first voyage to 1808 and later describes travel through Atlantic ports, the Mediterranean, the Pacific, and coastal trade routes. The narrative records shipboard labor, changing vessels, difficult passages, and encounters far from New England while keeping Cuffe's Native identity visible in its title and opening history. He is Paul Cuffe Jr., distinct from the merchant and colonization advocate whose biography often dominates the family name. Narrative Of The Life And Adventures Of Paul Cuffe presents a working sailor's account of a Pequot life connected to global maritime movement. Its first-person structure lets practical experience, mobility, and family identity remain closely linked.