YOUNG, ABRAHAM [SSNE 584]
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Abraham Young settled in Danzig in 1586 and then fought in 1598 and during Livonian war in 1600 as a captain of a troop of 300 men. In 1603 Young was commissioned by the Polish government to investigate the Scottish community living there. The following year he was appointed as commander of the Scottish foot under Sigismund III of Poland, as well as Conservator, Director and Informer over the Scottish community in Poland. A register was created of all the Scottish merchants in order that they might be called upon for defensive purposes in their own country. Confer [SSNE 6519]A. C. Dow, 'Ministers to the Soldiers of Scotland' (Edinburgh, 1962), p.62; A.F. Steuart, Papers Relating to the Scots in Poland 1576-1793, (Edinburgh, 1915), pp.xiv-xv, 5-7; Acta Consularia Cracoviensia, 1604, f. 519; T. Fischer, The Scots in Germany, (Edinburgh, 1902), pp.37-40; 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.198; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.151.
Service record
- POLAND-LITHUANIA, DANZIG
- Departed 1605-12-31, as COMMANDER
- Capacity COMMANDER, CONSERVATOR, purpose MILITARY, CIVIC
- POLAND-LITHUANIA, CRACOW
- Capacity CIVIC, purpose MERCANTILE
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