Old family; or, The Setons of Scotland and America

2-,4 4N OLD FAMILY. [a.d. 1760
scenes which they had inspired with so many happy associa-
tions," says Lord Houghton, better known as Richard Monck-
ton Milnes, in Monographs, Personal and Social. The inscrip-
tion on their tomb is from the graceful pen of that Earl of
Carlisle who, as Lord Morpeth, travelled in the United States
. many years ago, and left a sympathetic impression of himself
on the New York society of the day. The goodness, beauty,
and affectionate disposition of the Berry girls — her grand-
children — is often mentioned by old Mrs. Seton in letters to
her son in New York.
6. Margaret Seton, married, in 1760, Andrew Seton, Esq.,
of whom hereafter.
7. Barbara Seton, married George Seton, Esq., of the East
India Company's Service, who belonged to the Abercorn
branch, and was a younger brother of Captain Sir Henry
Seton, Bart., who served in America. Mrs. George Seton,
when a widow, was in receipt of a small pension from the
Company or the Government. Thev had an only child called
Barbara, the " Bab" of our old family letters. Like her
mother and all the rest of the Setons, she was tall and favored
with natural talent, which was improved by education and
intercourse with her cousins, the Berry sisters, who were early
introduced into the best society by the Duchess of Northum-
berland, who had been a strong friend of their mother. A
drama called the Siege of Berwick was written in the last
century bv Edward Jerningham, of which Horace Walpole,
writing to Mary Berry from Strawberry Hill on Tuesday,
November 14, 1793, says:
" George Cambridge was last night at the first representation of Jerning-
ham's new play, and I was delighted to hear that it was received with great
applause and complete success, being very interesting. The Baviad has been
useful to it, for there is no love in it. Mr, Cambridge desired me to tell
you that there was one deficiency in it, i.e., y» cousin Miss Seton should
have played in it, for a Governor Seton, and his wife and two sons, are the
principal personages."