SETON, Grisel 'of Shethin' or 'of Udny' ¹

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Grisel married Major Nathaniel GORDON Cavalier (1644), son of John GORDON of Ardlogie and Margaret KAR.¹ (Major Nathaniel GORDON Cavalier (1644) was baptised on 9 January 1612 in Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland ² and died on 20 January 1646 in The Cross, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.). The cause of his death was execution by 'maiden' or guillotine.

  Marriage Notes:

"He (Nathaniel Gordon) seems to have had no ready money towards the end of his career, for Robert Keith, the minister of Deer, advanced 200 merks, and Elspet Donaldson, widow of an Aberdeen burgess, lent 100 merks to support Nathaniel in prison and to afford him decent burial. Gordon, however, declared to the end that 500 merks were due to him by Janet Gordon, the widow of William Gordon of Tulloch, and he directed in his last will and testament that his creditors should be paid out of this, the residue going to his wife, Grisel Seton probably of the Shethin or Udny families.

But Mrs. Gordon of Tulloch resolutely declined to pay the 500 merks, and the poor parson of Deer had to appeal to Parliament as late as 1649 to help him to get back his money. Nathaniel's wife Grisel must have had to practice the patience of her great namesake, for he was fancy-free, and did not let the marriage vow interfere with his inclinations. Cant had once criticised his polygamous instincts, whereon Nathaniel wrote the parson a letter which 'fleyet him to the hairt, and causit him to remove out of the toun' of Aberdeen. Nathaniel afterwards confessed his sin, 'but God knowis,' says Spalding (ii., 431), 'if this humiliatioun wes fra his hairt'."

from Gight ¹