Old family; or, The Setons of Scotland and America

316 AN OLD FAMILY. [a.d.
George Seton, son of Charles Seton and Matilda Sibbald,
born December 2, 1817. He was a decidedly handsome
man, and popular. He was purser for several vears before
the Civil War on a steamer plying between Charleston, South
Carolina, and the Saint John's River, Florida. Married his
cousin, Caroline Sibbald. During the war was a Captain in
the Quartermaster's Department of the Confederate Army.
After the war he purchased property at Sharptown, Wicomico
County, Maryland, and died leaving a son and daughter. His
widow lives on the estate with her children:
1. Charles Fraser Seton, representative of Andrew and
Margaret Seton, who puts forth some claim to be the rightful
heir to the Earldom of Dunfermline.
2. Mary (May) Isabel Seton.
Margaret Seton, daughter of Charles Seton and Matilda
Sibbald, married Colonel Lewis Fleming, of Hibernia, Florida,
whose father, George Fleming, came out from Ireland in 1785,
and got a grant of land from the Government. * He married,
in 1 79 1, Sophia, daughter of Francis Philip Fatio, who had
settled in Florida in 1 7 7 1 . A sketch of this lady's family
was published by the late Mrs. Susan L'Engle, who was con-
nected with it, and who says: " The Fatio family was orig-
inally from Palermo, in Sicily, but becoming involved in the
* The founder of the noble and ancient family of Fleming-, which rose
to great distinction in Great Britain, and long enjoyed peerages in Scotland
and in Ireland, was Archambauld, a knight of Flanders — hence surnamed
Le Fleming — who went with the Conqueror to England and was rewarded
for his services by several manors in Devonshire and Cornwall, of which he
is found possessed in 10S7. One of his descendants attended Henry II. in
the invasion of Ireland and obtained several lordships there. F"rom him
came the Barons Slane, one of whom. Christopher Fleming, was created
Viscount Longford in 1713.
The Scotch Flemings held the lands of Biggar and Cumbernauld.
Sir Robert Fleming, lineally descended from the original settler in Scot-
land, was created a peer of Parliament as Baron Fleming in the fif-
teenth century, and in 1606 John, sixth Lord F'leming, was made Earl
of Wigton.