Sir John Hay of Alderston, 1st Baronet

Sir John Hay of Alderston, 1st Baronet (d.1706) was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia on February 22, 1703. He was the son of Thomas Hay of Hermiston (d.1607) one of the Clerks of the Court of Session and a Clerk of the Privy Council of Scotland, and Anna, daughter of Sir John Gibson of Pentland, Baronet.

Sir John Hay acquired the feudal barony of Alderston in East Lothian, which had long been a possession of the Hepburn family.

He married April 27, 1693, Catherine, daughter of Sir George Suttie, 1st Baronet of Balgonie, and had issue: two sons, his successors, and three daughters.

References

* "History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland" etc., by John Burke, London, 1836, vol. 3, p.437.
* "Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland", by Messrs. John and John Bernard Burke, 2nd edition, London, 1841, p.626.