Old family; or, The Setons of Scotland and America

1685] SETON TARTAN. SETON NAMES. 23s
of John Learson and James Seton, of the city of New York.
These Setons do not belong to our branch, nor is anything
more known about them.
Seton of Newark.
Alexander Abercromby of Fetternear, younger brother of
James Abercrombv of Birkenbog, in Banffshire, father of the
first Baronet of the family, married 'Jean, daughter of John
Seton of Newark, and had three sons, of whom Patrick Aber-
crombv, M.D., the youngest, was a writer of repute and
author of The Martial Achievements of the Scottish Nation ; and
Francis Abercromby, the eldest, having married Anne, Bar-
oness Sempill in her own right, was created a Peer of Scot-
land, for life only, as Lord Glassford, in Julv, 1685.
Seton Tartan.
Is chiefly red, with small lines of green, black, purple, and
white. Although the Setons were a Lowland family, they
had adopted a clan cognizance before the reign of James VI.
(I. of England). It is mentioned by the author of Vestiarium
Scoticum, a treatise on Scottish costume.
Seton Names.
All old families have certain Christian or fore-names
which, in course of time, have become characteristic of them.
The knowledge that certain Christian names, to the almost
absolute exclusion of others, are found in particular families,
is often an aid in genealogical researches. Before the middle
of the fifteenth century the most common Christian names
of men in the Seton family appear to have been Christopher