LINDSAY, JAMES [SSNE 1101]

Surname

LINDSAY, LINDZAY

First name

JAMES, JACOBUS

Nationality

SCOT

Region

ABERDEEN

Social status

BURGESS

Text source

James Lindsay was listed as a Scottish burgess in Posen in 1650, from Aberdeen. He is probably the same as the James Lindsay who paid 4500 florins for the subsidy for King Charles II in 1651

T. Fischer, The Scots in Eastern and Western Prussia (Edinburgh, 1903), p.211; 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 1650-01-01

Departed 1651-12-31

Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC