Nova Scotia.

Sarah died several years ago, leaving three children: Meta, Russell, and Harold.

LOUISE, born May 9, 1861, was married in Meagher's Grant, Nova Scotia, to Charlie Armond, of Halifax. By occupation an editor. Louise afterward married Thomas Hartnoll, of Milford, New Hampshire, where they now live.

WILLIAM, born February 3, 1867, is deceased.

ELIZABETH, third child of James and Martha, married James Johnson, of Halifax. They had eight children: James, Sarah, George, William, Andrew, Edward, Martha, and one who died.

JAMES SEETON, the fourth child of James and Martha, married Sophia Wright, and they had six children: John, James, Emma, Martha, Louise, and Alden. He afterward married Miss Mythias, of Musquodobit. Their children were: Hattie, Maud, Fannie, Bessie, Ida, and James.

JOHN WILLIAM SEETON, fifth child of James and Martha, married Elizabeth McDonald, of Pictou, Nova Scotia. He died in 1848, leaving two children, Margaret and John William 2d, the latter of whom was born June 7, 1853, at Londonderry, Colchester county, Nova Scotia. He was married at Elmfield, Nova Scotia, June 21, 1877, to Annie Munroe, daughter of George Munroe, who was born in Scotland, in 1816, and who was a son of Robert Munroe and Anna (Mathewson) Munroe. Annie's mother, Margaret McIntosh, daughter of Alexander and Janet (Murry) McIntosh, was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1819.

John William Seeton 2d is a driver, and resides at 47 Highland avenue, Lynn, Massachusetts, where he has made his home since May 1st, 1890, having formerly lived at Lisbon Falls, Maine, from August 13, 1888, to May 1, 1890, at Springhill, Cumberland county, Nova Scotia, from 1873 to 1888, and previous to that time at his birthplace. He was brought up a Presbyterian, but the family now worships with the Congregationalists.

The children of John William and Elizabeth Seeton, all except one of whom were born at Springhill, Nova Scotia, are: George Wimburn, born May 19, 1878; was married December 24, 1903,

in Springfield, Massachusetts, to Miss Ethel May Tufts of Lynn, of that State. They live in Waterbury, Connecticut. Edith Elizabeth Seeton, born June 25, 1880; Margaret Wilhelmina, born July 26, 1882; Anna Ovetta, born August 28, 1884; Jessie Thorburn, born June 20, 1888, and Grace Purington, born at Lynn, Massachusetts, June 19, 1891, live at the last-mentioned city.

JOSEPH SEETON, the sixth child of James and Martha, married Emma Metsler, of Halifax. They have four children: Louise, Gertrude, Isabella, and Adolphus, the latter of whom died November 18, 1901.

ROBERT, seventh child of James and Martha Seeton, married Isabella Anderson, of Musquodobit Harbor, Nova Scotia. They have had four children: Hattie, Edward. Bert, and Ella.

Robert was a merchant in Halifax. He died a short time ago, at the age of eighty-eight.

CHAPTER LX.

NEGROES WHO ARE NAMED SEATON.

JOSEPH HENRY SEATON, a negro, lives at Springfield, Massachusetts, No. 19 Lombard street. He was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1884, and is single, a hotel man, and a druggist. He has lived at Springfield for nine years, having moved to that city from his birthplace in 1894. He belonged to Company B, Tenth Massachusetts Regiment, Boys' Brigade; is a Republican and a Baptist. His father, William Seaton, was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1861; married Rebecca Allen, who was also born in Richmond during that first year of the Civil War. They were married in the Confederate Capital City, in 1882.

William Seaton's parents, Moses and Matilda Seaton, were slaves, the one in Kentucky and the other in Virginia, but were emancipated by their owners, whose surnames they retained after they were freed. Matilda Seaton was born in Kentucky, in slavery; was set free before the War of the Rebellion, and went over into Virginia, where she was married to Moses Seaton, who was a slave to another family of the name, who also gave Moses his freedom. Moses and Matilda Seaton had another son, Cæsar Seaton, whose whereabouts are unknown, but inquired for.

The writer has been told there are other negroes who support our family name, in Atchison, Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas; and there is one Joseph Seaton, a colored man, who works at the Grand Central Hotel in Wheeling, West Virginia, who secured his honorable patronymic in the same way.

In this connection it may not be out of place to recall the statement, made elsewhere in this book, that William Winston Seaton, of his own accord, emancipated more of his own slaves than all of the Abolitionists in the North had ever liberated before the war. And it appears from the above that he was not the only member of our family who gave freedom to his bondsmen.