DAVIDSON, GEORGE [SSNE 5769]

Surname

DAVIDSON, DIVISSON, DAWIDSON

First name

GEORGE, JERZY JOZEF

Nationality

SCOT

Text source

George Davidson was amongst the Scots and English in Zamosc who subscribed to the subsidy for King Charles II in 1651. In total they paid 8053/2 1/2 florins. Davidson was also a resident merchant, member of the guild and elder of Viginti Viri

A.B. Pernal and R.P. Gasse, The 1651 Polish Subsidy to the exiled Charles II, Oxford Slavonic Papers, vol xxxii (Oxford, 1999), p.28; Z. Guldon and L. Stepkowski, Szkoci i Anglicy w Koronie w polowie XVII wieku, Kieleckie Studia Historyczne, ii (1977); A. Bieganska, The Learned Scots in Poland (From the Mid-Sixteenth to the close of the Eighteenth Century) in 'Canadian Slavonic Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 1, March 2001, p.26.

Service record

POLAND-LITHUANIA, ZAMOSC, WARSAW

Arrived 1651-01-01

Departed 1670-12-31

Capacity MERCHANT, GUILD MEMBER, purpose MERCANTILE, TRADE, CIVIC