WOOD, PETER [SSNE 5078]
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Peter Wood was an Aberdonian who became a burgess of Cracow in 1625.
Peter Wood and James Karmichael (SSNE 5076)presented their genealogies to Cracow Council on 5 December 1625, took the oath and became citizens of Cracow. They also paid the Treasury 20 (?) Hungarian gold pieces, and promised that one of them would pay a long gun, or musket, and a stone of gunpowder and that one of them would marry within the year or acquire land. William Peterson and George Emsle (SSNE 5094) bound themselves as security.
Sources: A.F. Steuart, Papers Relating to the Scots in Poland 1576-1793, (Edinburgh, 1915), pp.42-43; Cons. Crac, 1625, fo. 215; Peter Paul Bajer, Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th-18th Centuries (Leiden, 2012), p.118, n.2.
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- POLAND, CRACOW
- Arrived 1625-01-01
- Departed 0000-01-01
- Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC/MERCANTILE