Shattuck, born February 15, 1819; married Catharine Sweet, of Newark, on July 17, 1851. 4. Catharine Kendall Shattuck, born December 15, 1823; married Rev. Aaron W. Chaffus, on April 20, 1848. 5. George Freeman Shattuck, born October 9, 1825; lived only a little over a year. 6. Henry Campbell Shattuck, born August 9, 1827; died within eight months. George Henry Shattuck, born December 9, 1830. He wrote to John Seaton, of Greenup, Kentucky, two letters, one from Philadelphia and the other from Niagara Falls, in 1857, asking for the genealogy of the Seatons, which was sent him, and which he corrected as to the Jane Seaton Stanley and Shattuck families by adding a few names and dates which are included in this book.

George Henry Shattuck taught penmanship and bookkeeping in Philadelphia, New York, and Niagara Falls at that time. Sally Stanley Shattuck died in Manchester, February 7, 1865. Nathaniel Shattuck was born in Temple, February 27, 1774, and died in Concord, September 1, 1864.

Samuel Stanley, the husband of Jane Seaton, died of spotted fever, April 19, 1814, aged sixty-one years; and Jane preceded him, dying December 5, 1812, at the age of sixty-six.

MARY SEATON, fourth child of Deacon John and Ismenia Seaton, was born January 14, 1750, at Amherst, New Hampshire. She consented to take Peter Robinson's name, and to multiply his comforts and divide his troubles with him.

Peter was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and lost his right arm at the battle of Bunker Hill. He was a baker by profession, and kept a public house in Concord, New Hampshire. They are reported to have had six children, but we have an account of only the following: 1. Peter 2d, like his father, was a baker, and kept a public house in Concord; 2. John Robinson; 3. Polly Robinson; 4. Ismenia Robinson, married William Butters, or Butten, of Concord. They had two boys, one of whom was named William Butters; the other's name was not given us. After the death of Butters, Mary Seaton married a man named Shaw, but they had no children.

MARGARET SEATON, fifth child of John and Ismenia Seaton, was

born April 22, 1752, and married Timothy Hartshorn. They had one child, a daughter, who was left an orphan. Her name was Peggy Hartshorn. She married Daniel Densmore, and moved. with him to Genesee. It is stated in other places that Margaret Seaton's husband was Timothy Hawley, and again that his name. was Timothy Sleartson; so we conclude that she was married more than once, or that a mistake was made by some one or the other of our informants.

MARTHA SEATON, sixth child of John and Ismenia Seaton, can be given only a short biography, for we only know of her that she was born February 27, 1754, was married to Jesse Stevens on the 13th of April, 1786, moved to Genesee, and had four children : 1. Andrew; 2. John; 3. Patty; and 4. Nancy.

JOHN SEATON 3D, or Deacon John James Seaton, as one writes of him, was the seventh child of John and Ismenia Seaton. He was born in Amherst, New Hampshire, on the eighth of April, 1756, and married Rebecca Kendall daughter of Nathan Kendall and Rebecca Converse, April 28, 1787. They lived on the old Seaton homestead, one and a half miles from Amherst plain, on the east, the same farm on which his father and grandfather had lived before him. He succeeded his father as Deacon in the Congregational or Presbyterian Church in Amherst, having been chosen for that responsible position on September 3, 1795, and continued to officiate until the time of his death, which occurred at his residence on October 3, 1836, when he was over eighty years old.

It appears that John James Seaton was so well versed in the pleasing art of music that he taught vocal music, sang in the choir in the church where he worshipped, and was the leader of the choir for a number of years.

The children of John 3d and Rebecca Seaton were four in number: 1. John 4th; 2. Nathan Kendall; 3. Samuel; and 4. Ambrose.

"She was never idle," the motto on her tombstone, was literally true of Rebecca (Kendall) Seaton. Besides doing her own housework, she did carding, spinning, weaving, knitting socks, and other work of that kind for market. She drove a "one-horse shay”

on her trips to market, going to neighboring villages, and at times as far as Salem. She was born in September, 1763, and died at Greenup, Kentucky, in August, 1839.

ANN, or ANNA SEATON, daughter of John and Ismenia Seaton, was born July 5, 1760. She devoted seventeen years of her life to the loving care of her palsied mother, proving herself a most patient and affectionate daughter. She afterward married the Hon. John Duncan, of Antrim, New Hampshire, who had been a Selectman, Town Clerk, Justice of the Peace, Representative for sixteen years, State Senator, and, best of all in the estimation of many of the Seatons, a Deacon in the church.

It was this Anna (Seaton) Duncan who, in 1827, at the home of her brother John, related the history of the early Seatons to her nephew Samuel Seaton, of Greenup, Kentucky. She died at Antrim, on October 4, 1834.

AMBROSE SEATON. From Miss Charlotte H. Abbott, of Andover, Massachusetts, we have received the information that there was a son Ambrose in the family of Deacon John and Ismenia Scaton, but we are inclined to believe that he was a son of Deacon John 3d and Rebecca (Kendall) Seaton, and will figure elsewhere.

ANDREW SEATON, son of John and Ismenia, was born on November 4, 1762. He married Polly Bowers. It is claimed there was another son in this family who was given the name of Andrew, and that he was born August 22, 1748, and died January 10, 1749. Andrew and Polly (Bowers) Seaton are said to have "lived all about." They lived in Merrimack, Nottingham West, Hancock, and in Charlestown, Massachusetts, about 1803, in which latter city they kept a public house; thence they moved to Boston in 1818, and later to Medina, Ohio, where Andrew died September 12, 1826. In Boston he continued to maintain a public house and in Hancock he engaged in trade, being a member of the firm Seaton & Gordon.

Andrew Seaton was a "thoroughgoing business man," owning several stage lines:

besides some others.

one to Providence, another to Andover,

There were ten children born to Andrew and Polly (Bowers) Seaton 1. Mary, born at Merrimack, August 14, 1790; died on September 24th of the same year. 2. James, born at Nottingham West, March 31, 1792; died January 2, 1834. He was a clerk in the Navy Yard in Charlestown, Massachusetts. 3. Ismenia, born at Nottingham West, September 10, 1793; died in 1870. 4. John. 5. Andrew, died at three years and nine months. 6. Mary. 7. Andrew. 8. Tyler. 9. Reed Page; and 10. Isaac Bowers Seaton.

JAMES SEATON, son of John and Ismenia, married Abigail Stevens, in Washington, New Hampshire, according to the records of that city, where his father lived with him in his later years, and where he (John) died. James moved to New York State, near Canada, at a more recent date. This family is reported to have been blessed with no issue.

CHAPTER XLI.

THE CHILDREN OF KENNER AND ELIZABETH (SLIGER) SEATON.

1. ELIZABETH SEATON, born February 14, 1773, in Virginia ; died in 1848. She married John Rose August 24, 1787, and had six children: Allen; Mary, who married a Buckner; James; George; and William.

2. MARY SEATON was born April 4, 1775, and died February

15. 1776.

3. MARGARET SEATON was born May 25, 1777, in Virginia, and died in June, 1835. She married Levi Whittaker, November 8, 1796. To them were given six children: Blaney; Grafton; Kenner; Levi; John; and Mary.

4. REBECCA SEATON was born in Virginia, June 31, 1779; married John Patterson August 8, 1799, and died September, 1836. To them in due time came three children: Rachel, who married a Kinsalo; Seaton Patterson; and Sarah Patterson, who married Joseph Frederick and had five children: Kitty; Margaret; Richard; George; and Alexander Frederick.

5. GEORGE SEATON, son of Kenner, was born in Virginia, on April 23, 1781, and died July 6, 1835. He married Sarah Drake, whose grandfather was Charles Drake, a brother to Sir Francis Drake, the famous English circumnavigator of the globe, February 3, 1803. Sarah was born February 20, 1783, and died December 14, 1863. To them were born eight children: Charles D.; Allen Rose; John Simpson; Jesse D.; Mary (Polly); Elizabeth; Apphia Ward; and Sarah.

George Seaton was for many years a magistrate at Seatonville, Kentucky, and after his death, his son, Charles D., was appointed under the old Constitution to be his successor.