Cabot Family (8/12)


An old photograph of a man with a bow tie.
An old photograph of a man with a bow tie.

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The Cabot family was another prominent American family involved in the opium trade in China. The founder of the family, Samuel Cabot Jr., was a Boston merchant who made a fortune through opium smuggling. Samuel Cabot Jr. married Elizabeth Perkins, a daughter of the Perkins family, and were parents to seven sons. One of their sons, Samuel Cabot III, continued the family business and expanded it into the shipping industry, building a fleet of ships that transported opium to China.


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