!SOURCE: Rev. Thomas Whyte, AN HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL
ACCOUNT OF THE BETHUNES OF THE ISLAND OF SKYE, Edinburgh, 1778,
reprinted London, 1893, by Alfred A. Bethune-Baker, reprinted by
ScotsPress, p. 20.
The daughter, Mary, was married to Dr. James Beattie, Professor of
Moral Philosophy and Logic in the Marischal College of Aberdeen, whose
poetical and philosophical works are well known; and whos, on account
of the merit displayed in them, obtained an handsome reward from
Government. And to him has a son called James-Hay, in testimony of
regard to the Earl of Errol.