FERGUSON, JAMES [SSNE 1095]

Surname

FERGUSON, FERGUSSON

First name

JAMES, JACOBUS

Nationality

SCOT

Region

EDINBURGH

Social status

BURGESS

Text source

James Ferguson was listed as a Scottish burgess in Posen in 1649, from Edinburgh. He is probably the same as the James Ferguson who paid 4000 florins toward the subsidy for King Charles II in 1651

T. Fischer, The Scots in Eastern and Western Prussia (Edinburgh, 1903), pp.210-11; A.B. Pernal and R.P. Gasse, The 1651 Polish Subsidy to the exiled Charles II, Oxford Slavonic Papers, vol xxxii (Oxford, 1999), p.21; Z. Guldon and L. Stepkowski, Szkoci i Anglicy w Koronie w polowie XVII wieku, Kieleckie Studia Historyczne, ii (1977).

Service record

POLAND, POSEN

Arrived 1649-01-01

Departed 1651-12-31

Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC