William Seton (writer)

William Seton III (born in New York, 28 January 1835; died there, 15 March 1905) was an American author, a novelist and popular science writer.

His paternal grandmother was Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, the first American citizen to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.

He was disabled for a time by two wounds received in the Battle of Antietam, where he fought as captain of the Forty-first New York Volunteers, French's Division, Sumner's Corps.

Seton recovered at St. Joseph's Military Hospital, at McGowan's Pass, cared for by the Sisters of Charity of New York, a religious community founded by his grandmother.

Originally called 'The Cedars", the estate was later named after a place purchased in 1784 by his great-grandfather William Seton in upper Manhattan.

[1] After the war he devoted himself chiefly to literature, publishing two historical novels, "Romance of the Charter Oak" (1870) and "Pride of Lexington" (1871); "The Pioneer", a poem (1874); "Rachel's Fate" (1882); "The Shamrock Gone West", and "Moire" (1884).

Although was ruined financially at the close of the Revolution, but remained in New York, where he founded the import-export mercantile firm, the William Seton Company.

William (1768-1803) was born at sea on his parents return to America from a visit to England, aboard the ship Edward, on the 20th of April, 1768.

From the age of ten, William was educated in England, and in 1788 visited important counting houses in Europe and became friends with Filippo Filicchi, a prominent merchant and trading partner in Leghorn, Italy.

Conditions were cold and damp, and two weeks after release Seton died at the Filicchi home in Pisa on December 27 and was buried in the English cemetery in Leghorn.

[8] Burke's Peerage (1900) recognized him as the head of the Seton family of Parbroath, senior cadets of the earls of Winton in Scotland.

In 1822 while sailing with the United States Navy, Richard became infected with typhus as a result of nursing a victim of the disease.

Richard died at the age of twenty-three off the coast of Liberia on board the ship USS Oswego and was buried at sea.