George Seton, 5th and Last Baron of Barnes, of St. Laurence House, Haddington

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George Seton, 5th and Last Baron of Barnes, of St. Laurence House, Haddington (b.c.1656, d.c.1733). His estate was heavily encumbered upon in the granting of his father of life-rents for his estates his step-mother, Noted in the Court of Session as, "Umquhile Sir John Seaton of Barnes having provided George Seaton his son by his contract of marriage to his lands of Barnes some differences rose amongst them upon fulfilling of some conditions in the contract. For settling thereof there was a minute extended by a decreet of the Judges in anno 1658 by which the said Dame Margaret Hay second wife to the said Sir John was provided to L. 900 Sterling in liferent and it was provided that Sir John might burden the estate with 10,000 merks to any person he pleased to which George his son did consent and obliged himself to be a principal disponer. ..."

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