Marriage and Children
On August 17, 1835 he married Jane Williams Bourne, daughter of Abner Bourne and Abagail Williams. John and Jane had issue:
- John Brown Abbott (November 29, 1831 – May 24, 1839)
- Jane Maria Abbott (born November 25, 1833)
- Waldo Abbott (September 8, 1836 – July 7, 1864)
- Harriet Vaughan Abbott (born February 18, 1838)
- Ellen Williams Abbott(born January 11, 1840)
- Laura Sallucia Abbott (born October 30, 1843)
- Elizabeth Ballister Abbott (March 15, 1847 – February 23, 1864)
- Emma Susan Abbott (born July 12, 1849)
- Gorham Dummer Abbott (born March 29, 1851)
As a part of the 1872 Iwakura Mission Mr. Abbott was given guardianship of Shige Nagai, a Japanese girl sent to the United States to be educated.
John Stevens Cabot Abbott died at Fair Haven, Connecticut. In 1910, a series of twenty short biographies of historical characters by J. S. C. and Jacob Abbott, was published. Their brother, Gorham Dummer Abbott, was also an author.
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