Hamlen’s Company starting on May 1, 1775, twelve days after the Lexington Alarm. The report mentions a long-gone house that occupied the property and, after the death of widow Pettingill, the “old house was then the home of Cuffy Rosier, a slave of Squire Josiah Torrey who lived farther north on this road… 247 High Street.” The site of these slave quarters where Cuffy lived with his wife, Indian woman Dinah (née Lamb) Nummuck, would have sat close to the current town line of Abington and Whitman.Īt the outset of the Revolution, we find Cuffy - now 48, presumably still short, and hopefully still well-fed-in the rolls for Capt. Brown and later Josiah Torrey, Cuffy is one of five Abington men identified as Black or mixed Black and Wampanoag heritage who fought for American independence.įurther biographical details of Cuffy’s life are found in the Dyer’s transcriptions of the Cyrus Nash Papers by way of a Massachusetts Historical Commission report about a property at 429 High Street. In addition to being one of the 12 adults enslaved by Rev. We know this because the ad placed by Brown, Abington’s first minister, is not the only source for insights into Cuffy’s life. Samuel Brown of Abington…a Mulatto Fellow named Cuffy.”Ĭuffy was obviously apprehended. Twenty-eight years before the Battles of Lexington and Concord, we find a 1747 ad in the Boston Evening-Post documenting Cuffy’s earliest known act of resistance: “Ran away from the Rev.
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