FORBES, DUNCAN [SSNE 133]
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Duncan Forbes served as a captain in Mackay's regiment in Danish service in 1627. It is possible that this is the same Duncan Forbes to whom Mackay wrote in September 1629 regarding an advance of 2000 merks on the strength of the future value of salmon from Mackay's estates. However, on 28 September 1629 he was killed in the fight at the castle of Breitenburg against Imperial-Ligistic troops.National Library of Scotland, MS 2961, Forbes of Culloden Papers, Donald Mackay to Duncan Forbes, 5 September 1629; G. Lind, Danish Data Archive 1573; T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p130; 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.3, 12 and 39; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.38.
Service record
- DENMARK-NORWAY, MACKAY'S REGIMENT
- Arrived 1627-08-01, as CAPTAIN
- Departed 1627-09-30, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY