Sir John Paterson, 3rd Baronet (c. 1730–1782) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1779 and 1780. Paterson was the only son of John Paterson (younger) of Eccles and his wife Margaret Seton, daughter of of Pitmedden. Paterson's father had married without the consent of his father, Sir John Paterson, 2nd Baronet but was given an annual allowance. When John Paterson (younger) died in 1743 Sir John took the surviving sons into his care and replaced the allowance with smaller individual allowances to the wife and daughters. When Paterson succeeded his grandfather in the baronetcy on 14 December 1759 he took one of the sisters under his care and increased the allowance to his mother slightly. His mother and sisters took a case to court demanding larger allowances from Pat