STEWART, ALEXANDER [SSNE 3610]
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There is some confusion about the identity of Alexander Stewart: One Alexander Stuart certainly served as a captain in Andrew Gray's [SSNE 378] regiment of the Swedish army in 1612. This is possibly the same Alexander Stuart who as a captain was sent to Scotland in 1632 to recruit soldiers for the Duke of Weimar's regiment. A Lieutenant Colonel Stuart of Clery was captured at Nordlingen in 1634, while an Alexander Stewart served as a lieutenant colonel in Alexander Cunningham's [SSNE 2115] regiment in Swedish service in 1638. The probability is that the first soldier was a different man to the latter one serving in the 1630s.
Sources: The Modern History of the World. Or An Historical Relation of the most memorable passages in Germany, and else-where, since the beginning of this present Yeere 1635 (London, 1635), A3; Swedish Riksarkiv, P. Sondén, Militärachefer i svenska arméen och deras skrivelser; T. Fischer, The Scots in Sweden (Edinburgh, 1907), p.224; Stockholm Krigsarkiv, Muster Roll, 1638/24-26; 1639/13; For an example of his name on a muster roll see https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0053366_00218
See also Rikskansleren Axel Oxenstiernas skrifter och brefvexling, first series, vol. 7, p.805.
Service record
- SWEDEN, ANDREW GRAY
- Arrived 1612-01-01, as CAPTAIN
- Departed 1612-12-31, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- SWEDEN, ALEXANDER CUNNINGHAM
- Arrived 1632-01-01, as LT. COLONEL
- Departed 1639-12-31, as LT. COLONEL
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY