CLERCK, THOMAS [SSNE 7366]
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Thomas Clerck was the son of Mr Andrew Clerck, advocate burgess of Aberdeen. Clerck swore the oath to become a burgess of Stockholm on 14 August 1622. His two guarantors were James Feiff [SSNE 4779] and Albert Rind. In September 1626 and whilst in Stockholm, James Fergusson, a local burgess and son of the deceased John Fergusson, skipper burgess of Aberdeen, sold some lands in Aberdeen to Clerck. Fergusson entrusted the said Mr Andrew as his procurator to infeft Thomas but reserving to Fergusson the liferent of the said property. The advocate did so in Aberdeen in December 1628 having produced to the local bailie Fergusson’s charter of sale written in English on paper (‘in anglico sermone in papiro script[o]’) at the time of that sale. Thomas was also a burgess of Aberdeen by December 1628 at the latest.
Stockholm Stadsarkiv: Borgare i Stockholm, Register 1601-1650, p.41; Aberdeen City Archives, Register of sasines, CA 2/1/36, fos. 316v-8r.
This biography was updated by Dr Thomas Brochard