LEITYC, ANDRZEJ [SSNE 5568]

Surname

LEITYC, LEITH

First name

ANDRZEJ, ANDREW

Nationality

SCOT

Text source

Andrew Leith (Andrzej Leityc) is listed as a Scot in Kedany, Lithuania in 1679. Either he or a namesake was behind the formation of the first joint-stock company in Lithuania, Societatis Commerciorum, a project of nine K?dainiai Scots including the mayor of the town, 'Andrew Leith'. They described themselves as 'Nationis Magna Britannia', established contacts with other Scottish concerns in Königsberg, Danzig and Riga and sought investment from Britain and thus established a commercial network similar to those operating throughout the previous century.

T. Stanislaw, Materialy do dziejew kalwinizmu w Wielkim Ksiestwe Litewskiem w XVII wieku/Odrodzienie i reformacja w Polsce, XIV, 1969; T. Stanislaw, Z dziejow kalwinizmu w Wielkim Ksiestwe Litewskim w XVIII w./Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie - Sklodowska, Lublin - Polonia, vol. XXI, 8, 1966; Sreve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.244.

Service record

LITHUANIA, KEDANY

Arrived 1679-01-01

Departed 1731-12-31

Capacity MAYOR, purpose CIVIC, MERCANTILE, TRADE, COMMERCE