ROSS, JAMES [SSNE 1449]

Surname

ROSS

First name

JAMES, JACOB, JAKOB

Title/rank

MAYOR

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

BURGESS

Text source

Jacob Ross served as the Mayor of Fredericia about 1670 and was still there in 1686.

S Nygård, (ed), Fortegnelse over kongelige resolutioner gennem rentkammeret, 1660-1719,II, nos. 4721, 4722 & 5084, 19 September 1685, 23 March 1686 and 12 June 1686; T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.274; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.216.

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, FREDERICIA

Arrived 1670-01-01

Departed 1686-12-01

Capacity MAYOR, purpose CIVIC