History of the family of Seton during eight centuries > Volume 2

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greatly struck by Mrs. Broadbent's intelligence and dignified appearance,
and felt no little interest in conversing with the undoubted heir of line of
the House of Seton.
(b) Robert, died a minor, unmarried, in April 1778.
(c) Barbara, married to Thomas Douglas, Esquire, and died without
issue in 1784.
The third son of Sir John Seton, first of Garleton, was
3. Robert, styled ' Father Robert Seton,' a Roman Catholic priest,
born in 1667, entered the Society of Jesuits at Toulouse, 7th September
1688, and died at Deeside in 1732, celebrated for his ' indefatigable labour
and great charity.'
From a manuscript formerly in the possession of the Rev. Dr. Lee,
Principal of the University of Edinburgh, entitled ' Information anent
Papists in Mar, April 1703,' we obtain some particulars relative to ' Father
Robert Seton ' : — ' Lews Farquharson of Auchindrein not only keeps a
priest, but has also frequent conventions and masses at his house, whereof
many instances and pregnant probation might be given ; but we judge a
few may serve. First, Mr. Robert Seton stayed at his house throughout
the whole month of December last, going about all the ridiculous and
superstitious rites usual in the Romish Church in time of Yule, etc. . . .
Thirdly, Mr. Seton did, at Auchindrein, solemnise the marriage of John
Forbes in Ennerchanlig, Protestant, with a Popish woman. . . . Mr.
Seton did also baptize a child.' In another ms. List of Papists, etc., in
Glenmuick, in the Presbytery of Kincardine-o'-Neil, and sheriffdom of
Aberdeen, in May 1704, Mr. Robert Seton, brother to Seton of Garleton,
is mentioned as having been for seven years a priest in that locality. 1
4. Alexander, apprenticed to John Hay, merchant, in April 1688, and
died unmarried about 1 705.
5. 6. Christopher and Charles, who both died young before 1694.
Sir John Seton's four daughters were : —
1. Margaret, who, after four years' residence in a nunnery in Paris,
' dyed in France a young woman.'
2. Christian.
3. 4. Elizabeth and Isobel, who both died young.
Sir John Seton 'was a vertuous man; much given to policie ; ane
improver of his fortune.' 2 He died in the year 1686, at the comparatively
early age of forty-seven, and was buried at the Church of Athelstaneford.
His eldest son and successor was,
2. Sir George Seton, second Baronet,
who the same year (1686) was retoured in the lands and town (villa et
terris) of Athelstaneford. Sir George Seton went abroad when very
1 Service of the Thirteenth Earl of Eglinton to also Rae's History of the Rebellion in 17 1 5.
the Earldom of Winton, in 1840, p. 38. See 2 Lord Kingston's Continuation, p. 87.
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