[3] John Cabot (born 1680 Isle of Jersey)[1] and his son, Joseph Cabot (born 1720 in Salem),[4] became highly successful merchants, operating a fleet of privateers carrying opium,[5] rum, and slaves.

George's other great-great-great grandson, John Davis Lodge (born 1903 in Washington, D.C.)[12] was the 64th Governor of Connecticut.

George's great-great-great-great grandson, George Cabot Lodge II (born 1927, son of Henry Cabot Lodge) ran against the successful Edward M. Kennedy in the United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, 1962.

Godfrey's son, John Moors Cabot (born 1901 in Cambridge),[18] a great-great-grandson of Samuel, was a U.S.

Another great-great grandson, Paul Codman Cabot[19] (born 1898[20] in Brookline),[21] was cofounder of America's first mutual fund[21] and "Harvard's [Endowment] Midas".

[25] In 1923, Harry H. Kabotchnik and his wife Myrtle petitioned to have his family name changed to Cabot.

[28] Judge Charles Young Audenried eventually ruled for the Kabotchniks,[29] as there was "nothing in the law to prevent it.