A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . on the following page. In 1869, as afterwards mentioned, the Letters andJournal of Elizabeth Seton were edited by her grandson Monsignor RobertSeton, from which numerous extracts are embraced in the fifth and lastedition of Madame de Barbereys Memoir (1892). By his wife, Elizabeth Bayley, William Seton had two sons andthree daughters :— 1. William, of whom afterwards. 2. Richard, assistant agent at Monrovia, who died in Africa,unma
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . on the following page. In 1869, as afterwards mentioned, the Letters andJournal of Elizabeth Seton were edited by her grandson Monsignor RobertSeton, from which numerous extracts are embraced in the fifth and lastedition of Madame de Barbereys Memoir (1892). By his wife, Elizabeth Bayley, William Seton had two sons andthree daughters :— 1. William, of whom afterwards. 2. Richard, assistant agent at Monrovia, who died in Africa,unmarried, 25th June 1823, in the twenty-seventh year of his age. 3. 4. Anna-Maria, and Rebecca, who both died nuns at Emmitsburg,Maryland, in 1812 and 1816, aged respectively eighteen and thirteen. 5. Catherine (Mother Catherine Seton), also a nun in the Conventof Mercy, New York. Born 28th June 1800, died 3rd April 1891. She was one of the first to be received into the Convent, after itsestablishment by Archbishop Hughes, and, at the time of her death, was 1 A further notice of Mother Seton will be found at pp. 311-12 infra. 3o8 WILLIAM SETON, NAVY. the oldest member of the community. She was, in a manner, adopted byGeneral Harper of Baltimore, and was a special favourite of CharlesCarroll of Carrollton, the last who signed the Declaration of twenty-five years she was a constant prison visitor, and acquiredremarkable influence over the criminals of New York, many of whom re-quested her to act as the guardian and trustee of their wives and children. 15. William Set on, Navy, the eldest son, late of Cragdon, Westchester Co., near the present MountVernon, was born in the city of New York, 25th November 1796, and diedthere, 13th January 1868. He was at one time a lieutenant in the United MONSIGNOR ROBERT SETON 309
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