LYALL, JOHAN [SSNE 6702]

Surname

LYALL, LYELL, LEIJEL, LEIJELL, LEYEL, LEYELL

First name

JOHAN, JAN, HANS, JOHN, WILLIAMSON

Nationality

SCOT

Text source

Johan Williamson Leijel was a citizen and burgess of Gothenburg. He had business dealings with Johan Macklin [SSNE 7423] in 1663. On 11 December 1667, he signed a deposition stating that Johan Bierman helped him out in Amsterdam when he was a representative there for the College of Commerce (Swedish). Bierman not only made him a citizen of Gothenburg but also captain of his ship St Johann. Leijel got a pass with the same ship in ballast, one way from Amsterdam to Bordeaux or Rochelle, there to take on salt or wine. But after Bierman was ordered by Karl XI to go to Brabant and thence to England, he gave his factor power of attorney. Contrary orders followed from factor Johan de Swann and Mattias Bierman; Namely to unload the ballast and ship with new green white wood and go at great expense to St Thomas, to be equipped, and this despite Bierman’s orders. 

 

Sources: Riksarkivets ämnessamlingar. Personhistoria https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0069887_00052#?c=&m=&s=&cv=51&xywh=742%2C2565%2C2628%2C1517

Swedish Riksarkiv, Anglica VII, 542, 1660-1670, Deposition to Resident Leyonbergh, London, 11 December 1667; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.224.

Service record

SWEDEN, GOTHENBURG, AMSTERDAM

Arrived 0000-01-01

Departed 1663-11-23

Capacity SHIP'S CAPTAIN, MERCHANT, BURGESS, purpose CIVIC, MERCANTILE, TRADE

SWEDEN, LONDON

Arrived 1667-12-11

Capacity MERCHANT, purpose TRADE, COMMERCE