George Cabot arrives in Salem.

(ca.) He and brothers John and Francois are sons of a wealthy Norman landowner on the Isle of Jersey. According to Mary Caroline Crawford, “The Cabots almost at once established the habit of making good marriages, a habit in which they have continued to this day.” Of Francois’ children, John marries a Higginson then a Clarke, James Freeman; Hester and Elizabeth marry Higginsons; Joseph also marries a Elizabeth Higginson, and, according to Crawford, it is “through their eleven children, that many Cabots Lees, Jacksons, Winthrops, Lodges, Lowells and Holmes of present-day Boston are descended.”