BOSWELL, DAVID [SSNE 124]

Surname

BOSWELL, BASELL

First name

DAVID

Title/rank

CAPTAIN

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

David Boswell was listed as a captain in the Danish army arriving in 12/12/1626 and departing 31/7/1628. Riis mentions a Captain Boswell in Mackay's regiment but says that Boswell was murdered on the march through the territory of Bremen in 1627

G. Lind, Danish Data Archive 1573; J. Mackay, 'Mackay's Regiment' in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, VIII, 1879, p.186; R. Monro, His Expedition with a worthy Scots Regiment called Mac-Keyes (London, 1637), I, pp. 1 and 4; T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II.

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, MACKAY'S REGIMENT

Arrived 1626-12-12, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1628-07-31, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY