ERSKINE, ROBERT [SSNE 278]

Surname

ERSKINE

First name

ROBERT

Nationality

SCOT

Text source

Robert Erskine appears as a correspondent in Stockholm in the 1650s. Letters dated in Stockholm from the 1650s survive relating to Jacob Porteous and Hans Primrose are signed by Peter Chambers [SSNE 4929] and Robert Erskine and appear to relate to some problem with councillor Michael Abrahamson

Swedish Riksarkiv, Biographica Microcard, E01711 7/8, letters 30/04/1656, 20/05/1656 23/12/165?; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.223.

Service record

SWEDEN,

Arrived 1650-01-01

Departed 1650-12-31

Purpose CIVIC