Samuel Cabot Jr.
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Samuel Cabot Jr. was an American businessman in the early-nineteenth-century China Trade, a member of the wealthy and prominent Cabot family.
Samuel Cabot Jr
Thomas Handasyd Perkins
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Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins, also known as T. H. Perkins, was an American merchant, slave trader, smuggler and philanthropist from a wealthy Boston Brahmin family. Starting with bequests from his
Samuel Cabot Jr.
…in 1838, one of the richest merchants in New England. In 1808, he returned to Boston and married Elizabeth "Eliza" Perkins (1791–1885), a daughter of Thomas Handasyd Perkins. Together, they lived in Brookline, Massachusetts and were the parents of seven sons, including: Thomas Handasyd Cabot (1814–1835), who caught smallpox…
Portrait by Gilbert Stuart, 1805
The Gloucester sea serpent of 1817