DUNBAR, PETER [SSNE 5779]
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Peter Dunbar 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. In 1655 in Danzig he declared "I cannot but wish this kingdom well where I have made my being so long and built my nest for my posteritie" Sir James Turner recorded that he and General JOhn Middleton were made particularly welcome at Danzig in 1656 by "masters Dunbar and Gallenden". It was probably this man who was meantA.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; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.79; Sir James Turner, Memoirs of his own Life and Times (Edinburgh, 1829), p.121.
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- POLAND-LITHUANIA, ZAMOSC, DANZIG
- Arrived 1651-01-01
- Departed 1660-12-31
- Capacity MERCHANT, purpose MERCANTILE