Responsory to his grandnephew: The questions are in Robert's handwriting. 1. Middle name of Richard B. Seton is Bayley, after his grandfather Richard Bayley . Place of residence in New York of William Seton, No. 1 was in Queen, Pearl Street, where Samuel was born, then in Hanover Square, and afterwards till his death in Stone Street. 3. Place of residence in New York of William Seton, No. 2, at his father's in Stone Street, then in Wall Street next to Dr. Richard? Post, his brother-in-law; afterwards in State Street facing the battery which place he left in 1803 for Leghorn where he died. James Seton moved in after they sailed. 4. Dr. Bayley resided on Staten Island; he was the health physician. 5. William Seton married Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton Anne Eliza Bailey at Dr. Post's on January 25, 1795, in her 19th year. 6. The place of residence of James Seton, son of William Seton No. 1 was on the Hudson at 42nd Street and 10th Avenue, known as the "Wilderness". The house remains unattended since 1810 when they left it. It is now in the heart of the city. 8!. Goveneur was sponsor for James Seton's second son Edwin Seton . 9. Greenwich was Bleecker Street, by Waverly Place, a village then. 11. Robert's grandmother had a friend at Philadelphia, Mrs. Julia Scott ; Mrs. Hill was perhaps a friend of hers. 12. Harriet Seton had no middle name. 13. Cecilia Seton 's middle name came first, Barbara Cecilia, named after one of the family of the Caley's, called Lady Bab. 14. Samuel's father's first child Elliot Seton died in infancy; Cecilia, the youngest, died at Emitsburgh, aged 19. 15. Samuel never heard of Mr. Ganneau ?. 16. William Seton first became a notary public in New York probably in 1729. 18. Captain James Farquhar was a friend of Robert's aunt Helen Craig . 20. Dr. Richard Bayley was a real gentleman, but very high tempered. So was Uncle Farquhar. Robert's grandmother, his daughter, was also a most spirited woman when young. 21. William Seton, No. 1, was commission merchant for the Mediterranean, Italy and France. 22. Richard Curzon settled at Baltimore. 24. Benjamin Vining, son of Samuel's eldest sister Anna Maria, died a cadet at West Point. 23. John Middleton Vining, a senator for Delaware died young. 24. He was called Seton Vining . 24 25. William Seton, No. 1, was the "Andes" of good society. 26. William Seton, No. 1, had pictures drawn and painted of his nieces the Misses Berry, of the Cayleys, of Mrs. Synott, her son Walter Synott . 27. Robert's grandfather, William Magee Seton, was sent to Livorno to be trained in Filicchi's house after being brought up at Eton with his brother James. 27. Margaret Seton, who married Andrew Seton was Samuel's father's sister. Her daughter married the Henry's not of Albany but of the South. Her son Charles Seton was a merchant; his daughter had a beautiful daughter Mary who married John Wilkes whose daughter married John V. Henry of Albany who was her uncle. Thus Samuel has answered all of Robert's interrogations and signs as his great grand uncle. In the papers of Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley . :: II-2-n A.L.S. 6pp. 4to. 32