HAY, James (fl. 1630-1659), formerly of Forret, Fife.

Family and Education

yr. s. of Peter Hay of Naughton, Fife.Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 325. m. Jean Home (d. 1661).Reg. Interments, Greyfriars Burying Ground ed. H. Paton (Edinburgh, 1902), 298.

Offices Held

Military: ensign, green regt. Swedish army, 1630–?Swedish Krigsarchiv, Muster Roll 1630/29–31. ?Col. ?army of 1st mq. of Montrose by November 1645.Government of Scot. under the Covenanters ed. D. Stevenson (Edinburgh, 1982), 51–2.

Scottish: dep. Fife, tender of union, 1652. Cromwellian Union ed. Terry, 26n.

: formerly of Forret, Fife.

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Commons 1640-1660

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HAY, James (fl. 1630-1659), formerly of Forret, Fife.

Will

Estates

by grants of June 1648 and Oct. 1651, Hay received lands of Easter and Wester Forret and Nether Friartoun, Fife, also lands of Glendrooke in Drumduff barony, Perthshire, from his bro. Peter Hay of Blebo; these, and other lands in Forfarshire alienated in grants of July 1653 and February 1654, and Hay known as ‘sometime of Forret’ thereafter.Reg. Gt Seal Scot. 1652-9, pp. 74-5, 84, 119-21.

Oxford 1644

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