A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . IX. PlTMEDDEN. ILLIAM SETON of Meldrum, served heir to hisfather in 1553, had, by his second wife, Margaret,daughter of Innes of Leuchars, two sons :— 1. George Seton of Barra, Chancellor ofAberdeen, d. 2. James, first of the family of Pitmedden. 1. James Seton of Pitmedden, born in 1553, was first designed of Bourtie, andafterwards acquired the lands of Pitmedden in Aberdeenshire, as appearsfrom a charter under the Great Seal, da
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . IX. PlTMEDDEN. ILLIAM SETON of Meldrum, served heir to hisfather in 1553, had, by his second wife, Margaret,daughter of Innes of Leuchars, two sons :— 1. George Seton of Barra, Chancellor ofAberdeen, d. 2. James, first of the family of Pitmedden. 1. James Seton of Pitmedden, born in 1553, was first designed of Bourtie, andafterwards acquired the lands of Pitmedden in Aberdeenshire, as appearsfrom a charter under the Great Seal, dated 25th March 1619. He marriedMargaret, granddaughter of William Rolland, Master of the Mint ofAberdeen, in the reign of King James v., by whom he appears to havehad two sons :— 1. Alexander, his successor. 2. James, who appears from the following epitaph, composed byDr. Arthur Johnston, to have been a person of great merit:— Tumulus Jacobi Setoni Petmeddeni. Quem tegit hie cespes, fastu Setonus honores,Divitias luxu, posse carere 1 Quoted in Nisbets System of Heraldry, i. 242. 472 ALEXANDER SETON OF PITMEDDEN
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