HEIJ, DAVID [SSNE 8486]

Surname

HEIJ, HAY

First name

DAVID

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

BURGESS

Text source

David Heij/Hay was a Scottish burgess of Stockholm in the first half of the seventeenth century. He was involved in the tobacco trade. In 1639 David Hay imported 40 "skålpund" of tobacco from Scotland into Sweden.

Source: Walter Loewe, Tobaksspinnarna och tobaskfabrikanterna i 1600-talets Stockholm, (Stockholm, 1993), p.21.

Service record

SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM

Arrived 1639-01-01, as BURGESS

Departed 1639-12-31, as BURGESS

Purpose COMMERCIAL, TOBACCO TRADE