MAUL, JAMES [SSNE 3070]

Surname

MAUL, MELL

First name

JAMES, KAKOB

Title/rank

MAJOR

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

James Mell (Maul) served as a lieutenant in David Drummond's regiment in 1635 and 1636. It was possibly this man noted as a business partner of Alexander Lord Forbes [SSNE 1616] in the 1650s in the business venture designed to salvage the warship Vasa.

 

Sources: Stockholm Krigsarkivet, Muster Roll, 1635/33-36; 1636/18-23; Lars Åke Kvarning och Bengt Ohrelius, Vasa: Kungens Skepp (Stockholm, 1998 ed), pp.41-42.

 

He is mentioned in Riksarkivets ämnessamlingar. Personhistoria https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0069635_00433#?c=&m=&s=&cv=432&xywh=2961%2C329%2C3224%2C1768

Service record

SWEDEN, DAVID DRUMMOND, GEORGE LESLIE

Arrived 1635-01-01, as LIEUTENANT

Departed 1639-01-30, as MAJOR

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

SWEDEN,

Arrived 1653-01-01

Capacity ENTREPRENEUR, purpose BUSINESS, SALVAGE