Rev. Paul Cuffee's grave sits all alone in Hampton Bays between the Long Island Railroad tracks and Route 27 highway. It has a stone marker which is weather beaten and broken in two.
Cuffee's grave has a small white fence around it erected by his descendants on "Good Ground" which was once all Indian land.
Cuffee, a Shinnecock Indian, was a celebrated minister, like his grandfather Peter John, who preached to Indians of Long Island. Cuffee during his youth was an indentured servant to a Wading River farmer who became an enthusiastic convert in his early 20s.
Cuffee preached among Indian communities to include a small reservation called Poospatuck (present day Mastic Beach); Canoe Place Hampton Bays, and in the end, Montauk. This vigorous preacher's services were attended by large crowds.
His broken solitary grave marker reads:
In testifying the Gospel
of the Grace of God
He finished his course
with Joy on
7th of March 1812
Aged 55 years and
Three Days
Cuffee's grave has a small white fence around it erected by his descendants on "Good Ground" which was once all Indian land.
Cuffee, a Shinnecock Indian, was a celebrated minister, like his grandfather Peter John, who preached to Indians of Long Island. Cuffee during his youth was an indentured servant to a Wading River farmer who became an enthusiastic convert in his early 20s.
Cuffee preached among Indian communities to include a small reservation called Poospatuck (present day Mastic Beach); Canoe Place Hampton Bays, and in the end, Montauk. This vigorous preacher's services were attended by large crowds.
His broken solitary grave marker reads:
In testifying the Gospel
of the Grace of God
He finished his course
with Joy on
7th of March 1812
Aged 55 years and
Three Days
Rev. Paul Cuffee's grave sits all alone in Hampton Bays between the Long Island Railroad tracks and Route 27 highway. It has a stone marker which is weather beaten and broken in two.
Cuffee's grave has a small white fence around it erected by his descendants on "Good Ground" which was once all Indian land.
Cuffee, a Shinnecock Indian, was a celebrated minister, like his grandfather Peter John, who preached to Indians of Long Island. Cuffee during his youth was an indentured servant to a Wading River farmer who became an enthusiastic convert in his early 20s.
Cuffee preached among Indian communities to include a small reservation called Poospatuck (present day Mastic Beach); Canoe Place Hampton Bays, and in the end, Montauk. This vigorous preacher's services were attended by large crowds.
His broken solitary grave marker reads:
In testifying the Gospel
of the Grace of God
He finished his course
with Joy on
7th of March 1812
Aged 55 years and
Three Days
Cuffee's grave has a small white fence around it erected by his descendants on "Good Ground" which was once all Indian land.
Cuffee, a Shinnecock Indian, was a celebrated minister, like his grandfather Peter John, who preached to Indians of Long Island. Cuffee during his youth was an indentured servant to a Wading River farmer who became an enthusiastic convert in his early 20s.
Cuffee preached among Indian communities to include a small reservation called Poospatuck (present day Mastic Beach); Canoe Place Hampton Bays, and in the end, Montauk. This vigorous preacher's services were attended by large crowds.
His broken solitary grave marker reads:
In testifying the Gospel
of the Grace of God
He finished his course
with Joy on
7th of March 1812
Aged 55 years and
Three Days
Inscription
"Erected by the New York Missionary Society in memory of Rev. Paul Cuffee, an Indian in the Shinnecock Tribe, who was employed by the Society for the last thirteen years of his life on the eastern part of Long Island where he labored with fidelity and success. Humble, Pious , indefatigable in testifying to the Gospel of the Grace of God, he finished his course with joy on the 7th day of March, 1812, aged 55 years and three days."
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