WOOD, PETER [SSNE 5078]

Surname
WOOD
First name
PETER
Title/rank
BURGESS
Nationality
SCOT
Region
ABERDEEN

Text source

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.

Service record

POLAND, CRACOW
Arrived 1625-01-01
Departed 0000-01-01
Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC/MERCANTILE