A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . rung from a good English family, who was founder of the Quarantinesystem and first Health Officer of the port of New York. There is abeautiful miniature of this William Seton, painted in 1796, when he wasabout twenty-eight years of age. For a description of the face, referencemay be made to The House of the Seven Gables, where Hawthorne describesthe miniature of Clifford Pyncheon. This was written after Hawthornehad visited the Seton ho
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . rung from a good English family, who was founder of the Quarantinesystem and first Health Officer of the port of New York. There is abeautiful miniature of this William Seton, painted in 1796, when he wasabout twenty-eight years of age. For a description of the face, referencemay be made to The House of the Seven Gables, where Hawthorne describesthe miniature of Clifford Pyncheon. This was written after Hawthornehad visited the Seton house, where the miniature, which he greatly admired,was shown to him, and suggested the fashion of Pyncheon. This interest-ing work of art bears the following inscription on a metal plate affixed tothe inner side of the case : This miniature, believed to have been paintedby Malbone in 1796, is a portrait of William Seton, Esquire, Representativeof the Setons of Parbroath, eldest son of William Seton of New York andof Rebecca, daughter of Richard Curzon, Esquire, of Baltimore, of theCurzons of Waterperry in Oxfordshire, extinct baronets, who was descended. ST. JOSEPHS, EMMITSBURG 307 from John, fourth and youngest son of Sir Alexander Seton of that ilk, Governor of Berwick Castle during the famous siege by the English, 1333, and of Christian Cheyne of Straloch, his wife, who married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Nicholas Ramsay of Par- broath, knight, becoming thus the founder of the Setons of Parbroath, who are still accounted, although their old estate is lost, the senior cadet branch of the three great families of the forfeited Earls of Winton, Earls of Dunfermline, and Viscounts King ston, noble victims of their loyalty and devotion to the Royal House of Stuart. William Seton died at Pisa, Italy, 26thDecember 1803. After his death, his widow ffi^^gpJE^l— --^-jEofiyfA^Sliwas led by her religious feelings and aspira-tions to become a Roman Catholic, and her , .
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