Cajoe was a man of West African descent, most likely born around 1728 in Ghana, Togo, or Benin. His name is derived from the Kwa language of the Akan ethnic group. Cajoe was enslaved by Capt. Amos Morris, a farmer, trader, and descendant of the original European settlers of New Haven and East Haven. Until 1773, he lived in captivity in a house built on the site of the Pardee-Morris House in the Morris Cove neighborhood. (The house Cajoe knew was burned by the British during the invasion of New Haven on July 5, 1779.) Church records show that Cajoe was married to Jenny and was the father of at least one child, Clorinda. They also show that Cajoe “man servant of Sergt Morris” died by drowning on Christmas day, December 25, 1773. He was 45 years old.