Old family; or, The Setons of Scotland and America

1 532-1 583] JOHN SETON OF CARISTON. 177
He married a well-dowered heiress, Isabel, daughter to David
Balfour of Cariston, in the County of Fife. The Balfours
of Cariston are stated to have sprung from a younger son of
Balfour of that Ilk, before its heiress brought that ancient
heritage to the Bethunes, afterward Betons. A Balfour of
Cariston is found living in 1476, and is mentioned in the
records of the Parliament of Scotland in 1495.
I. John Seton of Cariston. By his lucky marriage he
had two sons : George, his heir, and John.
Sir John Seton, Captain in the Scots Guards in France,
married a daughter of the Count de Bourbon, and had, besides
a daughter, who married Adinston of that Ilk, an ancient Baron
in East Lothian, a son, also named John, and likewise an
officer in the Scots Guards, who, marrying a French lady,
settled in France in his manor house of Coulonniers, near
Meaux, leaving children, of whom "Jean de Seton" and
Henry de Seton ; Catherine de Seton, wife of Claude de Bertin
de Relincourt, Knight; Angelique de Seton, and four other
daughters, "professed nuns." Mr. George Seton obtained
from the records in the National Library at Paris a copy of
his last will and testament, which is dated 15th May, 1661,
and has reproduced it, in the original and with an English
translation, in his Family of Seton, II., pp. 982—987.
II. George Seton of Cariston. Was born about 1554,
and succeeded his father before 20th July, 1573. He mar-
ried Margaret, daughter of Sir John Ayton of that Ilk, County
Fife, by whom he had, with other issue, George, his successor.
Ayton of Ayton is an old family that goes back to the twelfth
century.
III. George Seton of Cariston. Born in 1585, or
earlier; married Cecilia, eldest daughter of David Kynynmond
of that Ilk, County Fife, by his wife, Marion Seton, of the
family of Parbroath. He had, with other issue, George, his
successor, and Isabella, who married her kinsman, Sir George