Old family; or, The Setons of Scotland and America

1637-1841] GEORGE SETON OF CARISTON. 179
eldest daughter of" the second Viscount Sidmouth, by whom
he had, with other children, Bertram, born 1845, married
1869, Isabella-Marv, granddaughter of Sir Lawrence Cotter,
Bart., and has a son Malcolm, born 1872, who was educated
at Oxford, and passed for the Indian Civil Service. I had
the pleasure of meeting these Setons at Ilfracombe, in Eng-
land, in 1896.
Christopher Seton of Cariston died in 17 18, in his seventy-
third year.
VI. George Seton of Cariston. Married, first, Mar-
garet, eldest daughter of David Boswell of Balmuto, by whom
he had one son : George, his heir. He married, secondly, in
1722, Margaret, daughter of James Law of Brunton, County
Fife, by whom he had Christopher, "a rare genius" who
loved travel and adventure, and died at sea off the coast of
Guinea in 1744; and James, who, engaging in the rebellion
of '45, was wounded at Culloden, taken prisoner, and came
near having the honor of being hanged at Carlisle like a Jacob-
ite and a gentleman, but was saved through the influence of
the Earl of Crawford with a German prince who had
brought 6,000 Hessians to Scotland in the interest of the
House of Hanover.
James Seton subsequently went to Holland, and was pres-
ent, as an officer in the Dutch service, at the memorable siege
of Bergen-op-Zoom in 1747. He died — according to the
usual longevity of the Setons — in his eighty-eighth year, on
2d February, 18 1 7.
George Seton of Cariston died 9th June, 1760, in the sev-
enty-second year of his age.
VII. George Seton of Cariston. Married his cousin,
Jean Seton, and had, with other issue, George, his heir, and
Christopher, born 1754, an officer in the Fifty-fourth Regi-
ment in 1776, with which he served through the American
War. He also served in Flanders. William Cobbett, the