SCOTTEN, [SSNE 330]

Surname
SCOTTEN
Title/rank
LT. GENERAL
Nationality
POSSIBLE SCOT
Social status
OFFICER

Text source

A lieutenant-general Scotten was to be second in command(?) of a Danish regiment of foot in British service with effect from 1/1/1701. Riis notes him as Scottish.

T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.94.(British Library, ms. Additional no.40,779 (Vernon Papers XXIX), fol. 39r.).

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, STUART KINGDOMS
Arrived 1701-01-01, as LT. GENERAL
Departed 1701-12-31, as LT. GENERAL
Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY