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