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/",e,Cuff, a New Haven Negro sentenced to death for raping
|) a white woman, petitioned the Assembly on May Lh, 17)9, to
change his sentence to anything but death..,.(The outcome is
unknown, CONNECTICUT ARCHIVES; CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS,

1737-1755, IV, 71, 73)" THE NEGRO IN COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND,
by Lerenzo Johnston Greene, Phe Des New York: Columbia Univ
Press, 1942; p 158.

Execution confirmed by Hearn, Citing CRIMES AND
MISDEMEANORS, a collections of ducments dealing
With crime in. Colonial Connecticut at the State
Library. Also: A reference in the Life CONNEGTI.
CUT COURANT: (newspaper) account of the execution.
Of Moses Paul. 'This was the firs New Haven exe-

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Vain Hanged May, 1749.
| '.,.Cuff, a New Haven Negro sentenced to death for raping
a white woman, petitioned the Assembly on May 1), 17h9, to
change his sentence to anything but deathe..(The outcome is
unknowne CONNECTICUT ARCHIVES; CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS,
1737-1755, IV, 71, 73)" THE NEGRO IN COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND,
by Lorenzo Johnston Greene, Phe Des New York: Columbia Univ
Press, 19423; p 158.

Execution confirmed by Hearn, citing CRIMES AND
MISDEMEANORS, a collections of ducments dealing
with crime in Colonial Connecticut at the State
Library. Also: A reference in the 1772 CONNEGTI-
CUT COURANT: (newspaper) account of the execution
of Moses Paul, 'This was the firs New Haven exe-~

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“eeeCuff, a New Haven Negro sentenced to death for raping
a white woman, petitioned the Assembly on May li, 1719, to
change his sentence to anything but deaths.,(The outcome is|
unknown, CONNECTICUT ARCHIVES; CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS,
1737-1755, IV, 71, 73)" THE NEGRO IN COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND,
by Lorenzo Johnston Greene, Phe Des New York: Columbia Univ}
Press, 19423 p
Execution confirmed by Hearn, citing CRIMES AND
MISDEMEANORS, a collections of ductments dealing
with crime in Colonial Connecticut at the State
Library, Also: A reference in the 1772 CONNECTI-
CUT COURANT (newspaper) account of the execution.
of Moses Paul, 'This was the firs New Haven exe-

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