This booklet was originally printed in the Liverpool Mercury. It is a biography of Captain Paul Cuffee, which was published in Liverpool in 1811. Inserted in the copy are a newspaper clipping about Paul Cuffee's Long Island relations and a photograph of his grave. Cuffee was a merchant, seaman, whaler, Revolutionary War veteran, and early advocate for equal rights for African-Americans and Native-Americans. This Paul Cuffee was not the Shinnecock preacher of the same name. He was born near New Bedford, Massachussetts and resided for much of his life in Connecticut, engaged in several voyages for trade purposes. Later in his life, he was involved with the African Institution, based in London, which advocated liberation and resettlement of enslaved Africans in the wake of British abolition. Captain Paul Cuffee was a largely self-educated man of African-American and Native-American heritage. Cuffee was a free man of color who captained a ship crewed entirely of people of African heritage, allegedly all from Sierra Leone. His family was from Eastern Long Island, with several relatives being from the area near Canoe Place, Hampton Bays, and the present Shinnecock Reservation. Captain Cuffee's parents and grandparents included early ministers and educated community leaders from the native people of Long Island., but he is identified having ties to the Pequot people.