(MILITARY REVOLUTION) FREEMAN NATHANIEL ”A Descriptive list

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(MILITARY--REVOLUTION.) FREEMAN, NATHANIEL. 'A Descriptive list of 16 Soldiers in the Town of Falmouth,' which includes one Paul Coffee, a 'Negro,' the only man of color. Folio sheet, written on one side and docketed on the reverse. Falmouth, MA, 7 July, 1780

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This list of soldiers includes their 'description, stature, age, place of abode, and region from which procured and the company from which procured.' It is a preliminary muster roll, in that Freeman would have been adding more names to form a regiment. The Paul Coffee on this list was not the Paul Cuffee generally associated with early migration and trade with Liberia. The name Cuffee, Cuff or Coffee, all are derived from the West African name Kofi, as in the name of the U. N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. We do know that this Paul Coffee served five months and was given his pay and an honorable discharge.