CRAWFORD, DANIEL [SSNE 3839]
- Surname
- CRAWFORD, CRAFFORD, CRAFFOORD, CRAFFURD, KRAFFERT, TRAFFORD, GRAFFERT
- First name
- DANIEL, DAVID?
- Title/rank
- MAJOR GENERAL
- Nationality
- SCOT
- Region
- JORDANHILL, RENFREWSHIRE [NOW GLASGOW]
- Social status
- OFFICER
Text source
Daniel Crawford served in Russia as an infantry colonel from 1650s. In 1660 he was taken prisoner by the Poles at Chudnov. Henry Gordon [SSNE 6541] apparently rescued him at one point during the battle along with colonel Thomas Menzies [SSNE 4013]. In 1661 he was back in Moscow with Patrick Gordon and Patrick Menzies who joined his regiment. He was Major General by 1669 and had a son, also called Daniel [SSNE 3840]
W. Barnhill and P. Dukes, 'North-east Scots in Muscovy in the seventeenth century' in Northern Scotland, vol. 1, no. 1, 1972, pp.49-63; R. Frost, "Scottish soldiers, Poland-Lithuania and the Thirty Years' War" in S. Murdoch ed. Scotland and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (Brill, 2001), p.211.
Service record
- RUSSIA, DANIEL CRAWFORD
- Arrived 1650-01-01, as COLONEL
- Departed 1669-12-31, as MAJOR GENERAL
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY