A request to selectmen of Dartmouth 22 April 1781, draft.
In 1780 Cuffe and his brother John petitioned the selectmen to exempt them from paying taxes until they were given the same voting rights as white citizens.
“To know whether all free negroes or mulattoes shall have the same privileges in this town of Dartmouth as the white population have.”
Reproduced from original in collection of New Bedford Free Public Library
