SMITTON, JOSHUA [SSNE 6884]

Surname

SMITTON, SMEATON

First name

JOSHUA

Nationality

SCOT

Text source

Joshua Smitton became a burgess of Stockholm on 22 February 1693. The following year he was skipper of the Stockholm registered ship 'Johannes' sailing between Leith and Stockholm in 1694

Stadsarkiv Stockholm: Handelskollegium Borgarbok, 1689-1750; Danish Rigsarkiv, TKUA, England, AII. Patrick Leyel 1683-1698 'Specification paa Svenske skibe 1 januarii til 1 decembris 1694'; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.218.

Service record

SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM, LEITH

Arrived 1693-02-22

Departed 1694-12-30

Capacity SKIPPER, BURGESS, purpose TRADE, CIVIC, COMMERCE, MERCANTILE