one of two daughters of a prominent Episcopal family born in New York on August 28 1774 charming little girl small-boned and dainty with great brown eyes lost her mother at the age of three Beautiful vivacious fluent in French a fine musician an accomplished horsewoman married on 25 Jan. 1794 William Magee Seton impressed by the Catholic belief opened a boardinghouse loved French died slowly and painfully of the tuberculosis “I’ll be wild Betsy to the last.”