HAY, WILLIAM [SSNE 574]

Surname
HAY
First name
WILLIAM
Title/rank
CAPTAIN
Nationality
SCOT
Social status
OFFICER

Text source

William Hay was in command of a company of James Sinclair's [SSNE 538] regiment in Danish-Norwegian service. The regiment was garrisoned at Stade until the town fell in April 1628. Hay had his reckoning by 4/10/1628. However in the autumn of that year he was to recruit 300 men in Scotland.

Source: T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.140; Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 2nd Series II, p. 472.

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, JAMES SINCLAIR
Arrived 1628-01-01, as CAPTAIN
Departed 1628-10-04, as CAPTAIN
Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY