CAMPBELL, DANIEL [SSNE 1201]
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Daniel Campbell was in military service from 1645. He is said to have served many potentiates including the Prince of Orange. He was captured at the siege of Genapo. Campbell became a captain of the marines on board the ship Christiana in the Danish-Norwegian navy. Eventually he was sent to Gyldenløve in Norway as an officer in the Norwegian army, serving out his time in the Gamle Trondheim regiment and in garrison duty in Fredrikstad until 1678. Campbell was married to a woman named Margaret. At one point she had cause to remind the king that, in Gluckstadt, The king had pardoned her husband for some offence or other and that she now needed his help as she was having to sell her clothes and furniture to survive. The nature of the crime, or the date of it remain unknown.J.C.W. Hirsch and K. Hirsch (eds.), 'Fortegnelse over Dansk og Norske officerer med flere fra 1648 til 1814 (12 vols. compiled 1888-1907), III, vol.1; O. Ovenstad, Militærbiografier: Den Norske Hærs Officerer (Oslo, 1948), p.202; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.195.
Service record
- DENMARK-NORWAY, DANISH ARMY
- Arrived 1675-01-01, as CAPTAIN
- Departed 1675-12-31, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- DENMARK-NORWAY, REGIMENT DE MARINE, NORWEGIAN NAVY, NORWAY
- Arrived 1676-01-01, as CAPTAIN
- Departed 1676-12-31, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity MARINE OFFICER, purpose NAVAL, MILITARY
- DENMARK-NORWAY, TRONDHEIM REGIMENT, NORWAY AND FREDRIKSTAD GARRISON
- Arrived 1677-01-01, as CAPTAIN
- Departed 1677-12-31, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY