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

WINTON REPRESENTATION
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3. Sir George Set on, third Baronet,
born in 1685, who, but for the attainder of George, fifth Earl of Winton
(who died in 1749), would have been sixth Earl, the Kingston branch
having previously failed. He was commonly styled ' Earl of Winton ' ;
was living at Paris in December 1750; and, about two years afterwards, at
Versailles. 1 He died without issue 9th March 1769, when Ralph Seton,
already referred to, became heir to the Winton honours. The following
announcement appeared in the Scots Magazine for April 1 769 : ' At
Versailles, in the eighty-fourth year of his age, Sir George Seton of
Garleton, representative of the Winton family.' In the notice of his death
in the Annual Register for 1769 he is described as ' Lord George Seton, a
Scottish Peer, and a Baronet of Great Britain.' In point of fact he was
a Baronet of Nova Scotia.
The descendants of Sir John Seton, first Baronet of Garleton, will
be more clearly traced in the following tabular pedigree : —
Sir John Seton, first Baronet of Garleton.
Sir George Seton,
second Baronet.
John Seton.
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Four other sons,
all d. s.p.
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Four daughters.
*Sir George Seton,
third Baronet
(succeeded to the
representation of the
Winton family on the
death of the fifth Earl
in 1749, and d. s.p.
1769).
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Three other
sons, all d. s.p.
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Three
daughters.
*John Seton
(succeeded his uncle Ralph
in the representation of the
Winton family in 1782, and
died 1796, when the male
representation is believed to
have opened to *Hugh,
twelfth Earl of Eglinton).
Two sons and one daughter,
who all predeceased their
father in infancy.
*Ralph Seton,
(succeeded his
cousin, Sir George
Seton, in the
representation of the
Winton family in
1769, and A. s.p.
1782).
John Seton.
Robert Seton,
died unmarried,
1778.
Barbara Seton,
(Mrs. Douglas),
d. s.p. 1784.
Mary-Catherine Seton=John Broadbent.
heir of line of the
Winton family.
Born 1796.
Died 18—.
Several sons and
daughters, who assumed
the surname of Seton.
1 See a curious letter from this Baronet, dated 27th February 1757, in the Appendix.