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Cuff Oringo

Birth
Death
7 Aug 1775 (aged 47–48)
Abington, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Whitman, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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NOT BURIED HERE
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Cuff/Cuffy Oringo/Rosaria/Rosier/Ross was enslaved by Abington minister Rev. Samuel Brown.

He ran away in 1747 and was captured and returned to enslavement in the Brown household. Following Rev. Brown's death in 1749, Brown's widow remarried Josiah Torrey.

Cuff served in the French and Indian War at the Crown Point expedition in 1756.

On 12 February 1757, he published marriage intentions with Dinah Lamb, a free multiracial woman who was the daughter of Mattakeeset Indian James Lamb and Patience Curtis (the illegitimate daughter of white woman Sarah Curtis of Scituate and Jo, a "negro" man enslaved by William Holbrook).

They had the following children:
Cuff Rosier Jr., b. Abington 1758. He served in the Revolutionary War.
Silas Rosier, b. Abington 1760, m. 1790 Assawompsett Indian Phebe Squin.

Cuff Oringo does not have a gravestone.
Cuff/Cuffy Oringo/Rosaria/Rosier/Ross was enslaved by Abington minister Rev. Samuel Brown.

He ran away in 1747 and was captured and returned to enslavement in the Brown household. Following Rev. Brown's death in 1749, Brown's widow remarried Josiah Torrey.

Cuff served in the French and Indian War at the Crown Point expedition in 1756.

On 12 February 1757, he published marriage intentions with Dinah Lamb, a free multiracial woman who was the daughter of Mattakeeset Indian James Lamb and Patience Curtis (the illegitimate daughter of white woman Sarah Curtis of Scituate and Jo, a "negro" man enslaved by William Holbrook).

They had the following children:
Cuff Rosier Jr., b. Abington 1758. He served in the Revolutionary War.
Silas Rosier, b. Abington 1760, m. 1790 Assawompsett Indian Phebe Squin.

Cuff Oringo does not have a gravestone.

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