DUWALL, TOBIAS [SSNE 2475]

Surname

DUWALL, MACDOUGALL

First name

TOBIAS

Title/rank

LIEUTENANT, COLONEL?

Nationality

SCOT

Region

MECKLENBURG

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

Tobias Duwall was probably one of Albrecht MacDougal's [SSNE 2444] 9 sons, brother of Mauritz [SSNE 2473] and Jakob [SSNE 1623]. He was first an ensign in Jakob Duwall's Norrland regiment. In 1627 he held the same rank in Lennart Torstensson's Norrland regiment. In 1630 he was lieutenant with Vasterbotten's regiment. Apparently, in December 1636/January 1637, he was quartered as colonel in Schmalkalden (Thuringia) and tried to blackmail 17000 riksdaler (Reichstaler) from the town. In 1647 and 1650 he attended the Riksdag. He appears to have become colonel of a cavalry regiment in the 1640s. He also served as commandant at Altmark in 1642. He may be the same as the Tobias Duwall who was colonel and chief of an "English" (possibly British) recruited infantry regiment in 1650. This man then subsequently went to England in March 1659 to recruit.

 

Sources: A letter concerning him dating to 1662 can be found here: Riksarkivets ämnessamlingar. Personhistoria https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0069586_00426#?c=&m=&s=&cv=425&xywh=-632%2C-500%2C8953%2C5164

Swedish Krigsarkiv, Muster Roll, 1626/7,9; 1628/10,13; 1629/10,12,13,15; 1630/18; ?1650/9; Swedish Riksarkiv, P. Sondén, Militärachefer i svenska arméen och deras skrivelser; Sveriges Ridderskaps och Adels Riksdagsprotokoll, 17 vols, see vol for 1647 and 1650; Johann Georg PFORR, Beschreibung etzlicher denckwuerdigen Geschichden. Eine Chronik von Schmalkalden 1400-1800, ed. by Renate T. Wagner, (Schmalkalden 2007), pp. 141, 142, 143, 153. Thanks to Dr Bernd Warlich for this last reference.

Service record

SWEDEN, NORRLAND

Arrived 1626-01-01, as ENSIGN

Departed 1629-12-31, as LIEUTENANT

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

SWEDEN, VASTERBOTTEN

Arrived 1630-01-01, as LIEUTENANT

Departed 1650-12-31, as LT. COLONEL

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

SWEDEN, ALTMARK

Arrived 1642-01-01, as COMMANDANT

Departed 1642-12-31, as COMMANDANT

Capacity OFFICER, COMMANDANT, purpose MILITARY

SWEDEN, ENGLAND

Arrived 1659-03-01, as COLONEL

Departed 1659-03-31, as COLONEL

Capacity OFFICER AND RECRUITER, purpose MILITARY