A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF CELESTIAL FIGURES,
Alexander succeeded his father James, married Beatrix Ogilvie, sister to the first
Lord Banff, and had by her a son, John, and several daughters, married to honourable
families. The estate of Bara was disponed to him by his cousin-german,
William Seaton of Meldrum, in the year 1630.
Which John Married Elizabeth Johnston, daughter to Sir Samuel Johnston of
and Alexander: He was a firm
Elphingston, and had issue by her two sons, James
loyalist, and was unlickily shot in the year 1639, endeavouring, with other loyalists,
to put a stop to the king's enemies about the bridge of Dee, as they were ad-
vancing to the town of Aberdeen, and his eldest son James died, without issue, at
London 1667, of the wounds he received from the Dutch in their attack upon the
English fleet at Chatham : The abovementioned Elizabeth Johnston,
after her
husband's death, was second wife to James Johnston, Earl of Hartfield, predecessor
of the Marquis of Annandale.
Alexander succeeded his father John Seaton of Pitmedden, who, for the loyalty
of his predecessors, and his own merit, was created a baronet in the year 1683,
and promoted to be one of the Judges in the Session and Criminal Court by King
Charles II. He married Margaret Lauder, daughter to Mr William Lauder, one
of the Under-Clerks of the Session ; by whom he had Sir William Seaton, Baronet,
his successor, George Seaton of Mounie, and several other children. He died
the 29th of May 1719.
His armorial bearing, as recorded in the Lyon Register,
is, quarterly, first and fourth or, three crescents within a double tressure, counterflowered
gules, and, in the centre, a man's heart, for Seaton of Pitmedden ; second
and third argent, a demi-otter sable, crowned gules, issuing out of a bar waved of
the second, for Meldrum ; crest, a demi-man in a military habit, holding the banner
of Scotland ; with the motto, on an escrol above, Sustento sanguine signa ;
supported on the dexter by a greyhound, proper, collared gules, and, on the sinister,
by an otter sable, standing on a compartment, whereon are these words, Merces
bcec certa laborum.
SETON of Touch, quarterly, first and fourth Seaton, second and third argent,
three escutcheons gules, (some old books give the field
ermine) supporters, two
greyhounds, proper; crest, a boar's head couped or: motto, Forward our's. The
first of this family was Alexander Seaton, eldest son of Alexander Seaton, Lord
Gordon ; the eldest son Sir Alexander Seaton, (second son of William Lord Seaton)
who married Elizabeth Gordon, heiress of Gordon of Strathbogie. The
above Lord Gordon begot Alexander, on his lady Giles Hay, daughter and
heiress of Baron Hay of Enzie, who, in right of his mother, was laird of Touch
and Tullibody, and got the lands of Gordon in the Merse, and was the first Baron
of Touch of the name of Seaton; and from him the family continues in a lineal
succession to the present Archibald Seaton of Touch: The barons of this family,
for their valour and loyalty, have been armour-bearers to our kings since the first
of the reign of King Jauies IV. with whom Seaton of Touch fell in the fatal battle
of Flodden.
SEATON of Gargunnock, descended of Touch, carried three coats, quarterly, first
Seaton, second argent, three bulls' heads erased sable, homed vert, for marrying
the heiress of Turnbull of Bedrule ; third a-zure, three escutcheons argent, for
the name of Hay, and the fourth as the first. Font's Manuscript.
Sir WALTER SEATON of Abercorn, Baronet, descended of Touch, carries as Touch
before, within a bordure gules, for his difference; crest, a Cornish kae on the face
of a rock, proper : motto, Hazard warri/y, Lyon Register.
SEATON of Cariston, the first of this family was John, second son of George
Lord Seaton, and his lady, Elizabeth Hay, daughter of John Lord Tester. He
married Isabel Balfour, heiress of Cariston of ; whom is
lineally descended
the present Lord Seaton of Cariston. The family have been in use to place in
the centre of the paternal coat of Seaton, an otter's head sable, being a part of
the Balfour's arms, and sometimes to quarter the entire arms of Balfour with their
-.nvn, as before in the Essay of the Ancient and Modern use of Arms.
SEATON of Barns, or, a sword in pale azure, hiked and pommelled of the first,
supporting an imperial crown between three crescents gules, all within a double
tressure, flowered and counter-flowered of the last. The first of this family was
John, second son of George Lord Seaton, and his lady, Isabel Hamilton, and im-