Thomas Seaton

"Thomas Seaton (Seton), 1st and eldest son of Alexander Seaton from his first wife Margaret Joasse. He was christened in Banffshire, Scotland, on the 10th September, 1677 (listed in the parish register). Like all of his family he settled in County Down and being the eldest son, inherited what remained of his fathers estate in 1723. Unlike his brothers, he remained in Ireland. It is from him that many early Seaton's of counties Antrim, Down and Tyrone in Ireland, descend.

We know little of Thomas Seaton's activities in Ireland, at this time we do not know to whom he was married or of how many children he had, though it appears that he had several boys, and we do know of at least four grandsons: Thomas (the 2nd), Robert, William and Jeremiah, and what is certain is that there are a number of Seaton families that were established from him in the Dromore region of County Down and also in Donaghmore and Dungannon, County Tyrone, Ireland. Robert Seaton married Jane McCabe of Co. Down, Ireland and had three boys but sadly died enroute to America in 1806; Jeremiah Seaton married Nancy Neal and had a large family; William Seaton, who never married, originally went to America and made a small fortune before returning to Ireland and purchased a farm near Stranorlar, Country Donegal, Ireland, near his brother Jeremiah who had also settled in Co. Donegal. Jeremiah's children settled into various parts of America throughout the 1800's. His son Samuel, for instance, settled on Presque Isle for sometime.

Thomas Seaton (the 2nd), son of Thomas, was born circa 1727 and maintained various family business interests and Flax farming around Tullahoge (Tellahoago, also called Dranity), a hamlet in the parish of Desertcreat, in the Upper Dungannon Barony, near Cookstown Co. Tyrone. " (see source)