A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . distant, and was father of 4. Alexander Tytler of Corsindae, born in the beginning of the seven-teenth century, and who died 25 th March 1690, having married Margaret Martin(died 16th June 1681), by whom he hadtwo sons :— (1) William. (2) James, ancestor of the Skene-Tytlers, of whom afterwards. Hitherto no conclusive evidence isforthcoming to show which of these twosons was the elder; but meanwhile, withconsiderable hesitation, I proc
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . distant, and was father of 4. Alexander Tytler of Corsindae, born in the beginning of the seven-teenth century, and who died 25 th March 1690, having married Margaret Martin(died 16th June 1681), by whom he hadtwo sons :— (1) William. (2) James, ancestor of the Skene-Tytlers, of whom afterwards. Hitherto no conclusive evidence isforthcoming to show which of these twosons was the elder; but meanwhile, withconsiderable hesitation, I proceed on theassumption that William was the first-born, and further, that he was the ancestorof the Aldourie and Woodhouselee branch of the family possesses, as wehave seen, an interesting document re-specting the tradition which connects theTytlers with the House of Seton; and,moreover, it has long occupied a very prominent position in the world 5. William Tytler, the supposed elder son, is mentioned in a List ofPollable Persons, dated 1696. The name of his wife does not transpire,but I am induced to regard him as the father of. 6. Alexander Tytler, Writer in Edi7iburgh, born 1st January 1678, married, 22nd November 1703, Jane, daughter ofWilliam Leslie, merchant in Aberdeen, younger son of Sir Patrick Leslie 1 See Sir Archibald Alisons Life and Writings, i. 232. 550 WILLIAM TYTLER OF WOODHOUSELEE of Iden, a cadet of the Leslies of Balquhain, co. Aberdeen, Counts ofthe Holy Roman Empire, by whom he had two sons and three daughters :— i. Alexander, born 2nd October 1704, died without issue in Jamaica in 1726. 2. William. 3. Jane, born 1705, died, unmarried, 1785. 4. Christian, born 1707, died 1788, having married George Lindsay of Plew-lands, City Clerk of Edinburgh, of thefamily of Kirkforthar. 5. Elizabeth, born 1715, married toHarie Guthrie, and died in 1807. In the year 1715 Alexander Tytlerwas sentenced to forty days imprison-ment in the Tolboot
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