From Witness Stone to Be Placed in Woodstock
Cuff Fellows was brought to Woodstock “as a rickety babe” after Isaac Fellows bought him for a pistareen (less than half a Spanish Silver Dollar) in Bellingham, Massachusetts. He lived and worked in the household of Isaac Fellows and his wife, Leah Paine Fellows, until he was manumitted by Leah Fellows in 1798. The Fellows lived on what was known as The Dyer Farm, and Cuff along with an older enslaved couple, Old Cuff and Dinah, labored on the farm and in the house. Cuff later married an enslaved woman from the Malbone household in the old Trinity Church in Brooklyn. Coincidentally, her name was also Dinah, making them one of many enslaved couples in Woodstock, Pomfret, and Brooklyn named Cuff and Dinah in the late 18th century. Leah Fellows and her children were baptized in the church, and some are buried in the cemetery next to the church. Dinah Fellows and their children were baptized in the First Church of Woodstock in 1810. We have not yet identified where they are buried.
