Gentleman Farmer, Writer & Scholar Of Distinction. Founder and Editor "The Bee" Publication and “Recreations in agriculture, natural History, Arts, and Miscellaneous Literature, Pioneer Economist.
On his marriage to Margaret Seton he sold his paternal estate of Cobenshaw and adopted the surname of Seton according to the terms of succession. Their first son was the heir to the Seton estate Alexander Seton Esq of Mounie.
In some documents Dr Anderson is referred to as Seton Anderson. The 1771 Landownership directory gives a value of 900pounds for Mr Seton’s Mounie property (Timperley, 1976) the most valuable of the four listed in the Daviot area. In 1780 the degree of LLD was conferred upon him by the University of Aberdeen.
Wrote letters to George Washington with “farming Ideas” 
As well as being an original thinker with opinions on a vast range of subjects, he was a prolific writer (with a tendency to verbosity) especially on agricultural and economic matters. He contributed articles on ‘Dictionary’, Winds and Monsoons’, 'Language’ and ‘Sound’ to the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. (W. Smellie, 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica or a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences… by a Society of Gentlemen in Scotland. 1st Ed. 3 vols. Edinburgh, A. Bell & C Macfarquar.)
He corresponded with Sir Joseph Banks and Adam Smith.
On his marriage to Margaret Seton he sold his paternal estate of Cobenshaw and adopted the surname of Seton according to the terms of succession. Their first son was the heir to the Seton estate Alexander Seton Esq of Mounie.
In some documents Dr Anderson is referred to as Seton Anderson. The 1771 Landownership directory gives a value of 900pounds for Mr Seton’s Mounie property (Timperley, 1976) the most valuable of the four listed in the Daviot area. In 1780 the degree of LLD was conferred upon him by the University of Aberdeen.
Wrote letters to George Washington with “farming Ideas” 
As well as being an original thinker with opinions on a vast range of subjects, he was a prolific writer (with a tendency to verbosity) especially on agricultural and economic matters. He contributed articles on ‘Dictionary’, Winds and Monsoons’, 'Language’ and ‘Sound’ to the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. (W. Smellie, 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica or a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences… by a Society of Gentlemen in Scotland. 1st Ed. 3 vols. Edinburgh, A. Bell & C Macfarquar.)
He corresponded with Sir Joseph Banks and Adam Smith.
Gentleman Farmer, Writer & Scholar Of Distinction. Founder and Editor "The Bee" Publication and “Recreations in agriculture, natural History, Arts, and Miscellaneous Literature, Pioneer Economist.
On his marriage to Margaret Seton he sold his paternal estate of Cobenshaw and adopted the surname of Seton according to the terms of succession. Their first son was the heir to the Seton estate Alexander Seton Esq of Mounie.
In some documents Dr Anderson is referred to as Seton Anderson. The 1771 Landownership directory gives a value of 900pounds for Mr Seton’s Mounie property (Timperley, 1976) the most valuable of the four listed in the Daviot area. In 1780 the degree of LLD was conferred upon him by the University of Aberdeen.
Wrote letters to George Washington with “farming Ideas” 
As well as being an original thinker with opinions on a vast range of subjects, he was a prolific writer (with a tendency to verbosity) especially on agricultural and economic matters. He contributed articles on ‘Dictionary’, Winds and Monsoons’, 'Language’ and ‘Sound’ to the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. (W. Smellie, 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica or a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences… by a Society of Gentlemen in Scotland. 1st Ed. 3 vols. Edinburgh, A. Bell & C Macfarquar.)
He corresponded with Sir Joseph Banks and Adam Smith.
On his marriage to Margaret Seton he sold his paternal estate of Cobenshaw and adopted the surname of Seton according to the terms of succession. Their first son was the heir to the Seton estate Alexander Seton Esq of Mounie.
In some documents Dr Anderson is referred to as Seton Anderson. The 1771 Landownership directory gives a value of 900pounds for Mr Seton’s Mounie property (Timperley, 1976) the most valuable of the four listed in the Daviot area. In 1780 the degree of LLD was conferred upon him by the University of Aberdeen.
Wrote letters to George Washington with “farming Ideas” 
As well as being an original thinker with opinions on a vast range of subjects, he was a prolific writer (with a tendency to verbosity) especially on agricultural and economic matters. He contributed articles on ‘Dictionary’, Winds and Monsoons’, 'Language’ and ‘Sound’ to the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. (W. Smellie, 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica or a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences… by a Society of Gentlemen in Scotland. 1st Ed. 3 vols. Edinburgh, A. Bell & C Macfarquar.)
He corresponded with Sir Joseph Banks and Adam Smith.
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