HUNTER, ANDREW [SSNE 5122]

Surname
HUNTER, HUNTAR
First name
ANDREW, ANDRO
Title/rank
BURGESS
Nationality
SCOT
Region
ABERDEEN

Text source

Andrew Hunter was an Aberdonian who became a burgess of Cracow in 1609.

In 1619 Andrew Hunter, a Scot from Aberdeen who was a citizen of Cracow, verified the legitimacy of James King [SSNE 5123]. This is probably the same Andrew Hunter who on 24 June 1619 received authorisation from the provost, baillies and council of Aberdeen to obtain 100 florins left by William Bannerman, son of the Aberdeen burgess John Bannerman, as a legacy for the Aberdeen hospital.

He is perhaps the same Andrew Huntar who paid the tax to Charles I in 1651.

Sources: A.F. Steuart (ed.), Papers Relating to the Scots in Poland, 1576-1793, (Edinburgh, 1815), p.51; Cons. Crac. 1612-1621, fo. 908; L. Taylor (ed.), Aberdeen Council Letters, vol.1 (London, 1942), p.166. See A.B. Pernal and R.P. Gasse, 'The 1651 Polish Subsidy to the exiled Charles II', Oxford Slavonic Papers, vol xxxii (Oxford, 1999), p.30; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.154; Peter Paul Bajer, Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th-18th Centuries, (Leiden, 2012), p.118, n.2.

Service record

POLAND-LITHUANIA, CRACOW
Arrived 1609-01-01
Departed 1619-12-31
Capacity BURGESS, FACTOR, purpose CIVIC/MERCANTILE