![]() I like to think there may have been a Cabot in Bristol, one of us, who watched our Italian namesake weigh anchor in the early morning of that second of May, 1497. None the less, such coincidences, even if they are only geographical, linger in family memory–our small challenge to the ledgers and arithmetic of an existence measured in bolts of cloth sold. ![]() Such a connection seems unlikely for a number of reasons, among them the fact that my people were simple tradesmen of Bristol, and uniformly fair-complexioned and topped with a blaze of the most outrageous red hair. As far as I know, however, I have no connection with the Venetian explorer who carried the banner of Henry VII to the New World. ![]() The name is supposed to have been shortened in the fifteenth century from the Italian surname Cabato. ![]()
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