time named they managed to fit up the long-boat, and in it went to the Island of Cancer. All of the family, except Jane Seaton, the almost indispensable mother, who was probably buried at Cancer, went from Cancer to Cape Ann and thence to Boxford, near Andover, where afterward Andrew Seaton married Peggy Wood.

The name of Andrew Seaton appears on petitions at Andover dated May 13, 1747, and as late as 1753. At a later date the family moved to Amherst New Hampshire, where finally Andrew died.

The children of Andrew and Jane (Blake) Seaton were: 1. Andrew 2d; 2. Richard; 3. Sarah; 4. Ismenia; 5. Elizabeth; and 6. Anna, the last of whom was the one who was supposed for a while to have been drowned when the ship was cast away at the Isle of Sable.

Peggy (Wood) Seaton owned a farm near Amherst, New Hampshire, beside three other tracts in Souhegan, in the same county. She and her husband adopted two children to rear, Peggy never having had any of her own. To these two children she left a farm jointly, as they were at the time husband and wife. One of these children was Samuel Stanley and the other Jennie Seaton, a daughter of Andrew's Ismenia.

Peggy Seaton is reported to have once said to her husband's daughter: "You have so many children while I have none, you may give me one." The reply was, "You may take your choice." For this reason we conclude that Peggy Seaton must have been a remarkable woman, that a mother should be willing to give one of her daughters into her care to raise. According to the account, Peggy said to Jennie, the second girl, "Put on your bonnet and go home with me," which she did, and never returned except as a visitor. These two children that Peggy adopted lived on the farm given them by their mother by adoption, until their decease, Samuel being sixty-one and Jennie sixty-six when they died.

After the death of Andrew Seaton one of his daughters went to England and secured the services of an attorney, whose name, as nearly as we can make it out, was Nathan Haislup, to act for her in settling up the estate. But where much of an estate could have

come from after all of this indomitable gentleman's misfortunes is a wonder. It further appears from the records that Mr. Haislup, if that was really his name, was appointed as guardian for the other children of Andrew Seaton, his widow having later married Joseph Sewler, and very likely, Miss Abbott of Andover says, the younger children may have lived with Mr. Sewler.

THE CHILDREN OF JOHN AND JANE (EDWARDS) SEATON.

MARY SEATON was born in Scotland or Ireland, and came to America with her father's family in 1729, as has been stated. The next information concerning her is that she was married to John Mann. They had three children, as follows: Mary, John 2d, and Samuel Mann.

The family lived at Pembroke, Plymouth county, Massachusetts. The records in the case show that John Mann was published to Mary Seaton in 1737, in Andover, Massachusetts. It has been claimed that this Mary Seaton had been married to a Mr. Colton, who died before her marriage to John Mann, but if the report is true, why was she published as Mary Seaton instead of Mary Colton?

JAMES SEATON was doubtless born in County Tyrone, Ireland, about the year 1718, and came to this country with the rest of the family in 1729, locating near Andover, Massachusetts. The records of the city say: "Married, May 5, 1748, James Seatown to Elizabeth Robinson, by Rev. Barnard."

Elizabeth Robinson was the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Stevens) Robinson, honorable people of the vicinity. She was the youngest of a large family whose births were recorded in Andover up to 1723, and she was baptized in the North Church, in 1727. Her father, Joseph Robinson, died April 9, 1756.

James Seaton is named by Seccomb and others as being on the Association Tax List in 1760, and he was a Selectman in 1766 and still in 1779; was on church committee in 1777, and subscription papers at about the same time.

The city records show that there was "Born, July 13, 1750, Elizabeth, daughter of James and Elizabeth Seatown." This

Elizabeth Seaton is said to have been married to Ebenezer Ellenwood, and to have raised two children, John and Phoebe Ellenwood.

The family is said to have moved to Amherst, New Hampshire, where they bought a farm, which was later given to the Ellenwoods, who finally gave it to their children, John and Phoebe, and bought another for themselves not far away. From John Farmer's History of Amherst we learn that James Seaton was a resident of Amherst before his brothers made their appearance there.

What has been written of the early life of Mary Seaton might be said of her sister Martha. The Andover records show this fact: Married, May 22, 1744, John Wasson and Martha Seatown, by Mr. Barnard. It has been stated that John Wasson and his family resided in Penobscot, Hancock county, Maine, and that they had eight children: 1. William, the first child was baptized on August 20, 1769, according to the records of South Church. in Amherst; 2. John 2d; 3. Samuel; 4. Thomas; 5. Mary; 6. Martha; 7. Ann; and S. Elizabeth.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

JOHN SEATON 2D was born in Ireland, about 1724, his father having emigrated to that country about 1715. He was five years old when the family crossed the Atlantic, locating at Boxford, near Andover, Massachusetts. The intention of John Seatown of Boxford to marry Ismenia Seaton, his cousin, and daughter of Andrew Seaton of Andover, was published in the latter place in October, 1744, according to the records of the town. He moved to Souhegan West in the same year of the marriage, his fatherin-law, Andrew, locating there at about the same time, and his brothers, Samuel and James, a short time afterward. Their names are all found on the tax lists of Amherst in 1760. He was a Deacon in the church at the time of his marriage, and continued to serve in that capacity there until 1783, when he resigned and moved to Washington, New Hampshire, where he died in 1793. He owned the old Seaton homestead at Amherst, having purchased it from his father, and, in course of time, sold it to his son, John 3d, just prior to moving to Washington in the same State. name appears on petitions dated May 13, 1767, and others in 1778 and 1783, and on the Committee of Safety in 1778, and from other records it is certain that he was prominent in church affairs in 1779.

John Seaton 2d was a lover of music, like all of the family, and he taught vocal music and sang in the choir of which he was the leader in Andover, Amherst and Washington, as we have been informed.

After his removal to Washington, New Hampshire, he is said to have made his home with his son James Seaton.

The children born to John 2d and Isemenia Seaton, as given by Seccomb and others, were: 1. Elizabeth; 2. Jane; 3. Andrew; 4. Mary; 5. Margaret; 6. Martha; 7. John 3d, or John James, as some give it; 8. Ann; 9. Another Andrew on some lists and

another Jane on others; 10. Is James on one list and Ambrose on another, so it is not impossible that these loving people had twelve children instead of ten, as some claim. The birth of Ambrose is not recorded in Andover, but it may have been at some other place. James is not mentioned in the Amherst History, but was added by John Seaton of Greenup, Kentucky, a member of this branch of the family.

John Seaton 2d made his home in Washington with his son James from 1787 until the angel of death made him a call with a summons to come up higher," in the year 1793, as has been stated.

Ismenia Seaton, daughter of Andrew and wife of John 2d, was the mother of ten or twelve children. She suffered a stroke of palsy in 1764 which deprived her of the use of all of her limbs. When they moved to Washington in 1787 she was carried on a horse litter, and though helpless, her mind remained as vigorous as ever before. She was a great reader, and like many ladies of her time, indulged in smoking a pipe, though it was necessary to have every page of her book turned for her while she read, and her pipe held while smoking. Her daughter, Anna, with remarkable patience and cheerfulness did this without complaining, for the remaining seventeen years of her mother's life.

Samuel Seaton was one of the children of John and Jane Seaton, of whose descendants we will have no more say as we proceed, for they had only one child, a daughter, who married Henry Kimball, a hatter. Her name was Sarah Seaton, and she was born September 23, 1761, but further than that we are unable to say anything concerning her.

Samuel was one of the family on record at Andover, Massachusetts, but the record in the case is well described by a line in Gray's Elegy in a Country Church Yard:

"The short and simple annals of the poor."

But we do not know that the quotation describes the subject of this sketch in any way, even though it does the record in the case. Samuel Seaton and Ruth Smith were published in Andover, Massachusetts, in November 1756, as both being of Andover.