SKOTTE, THOMAS [SSNE 602]

Surname

SKOTTE, SCOTT

First name

THOMAS

Title/rank

MAYOR

Nationality

SCOT

Region

Social status

BURGESS

Education

Religion

Text source

Thomas Skotte leased jointly with a mayor and two councillors of the town the latter's gunpowder factory for 200 rixdollars yearly for the period 1635-8. Owned in the 1640's a wind-mill and a horsemill, the latter was taken by the army to be used as a guard-house. Furnished goods to the armed forces during the war 1643-5, reckoning was to be made 6/5/1646. Obtained export licence for oak timber 17/3/1646. Councillor by 6/5/1646, later mayor: had died by July 1653, leaving his widow Margrethe and their children Karen, Johan, Maria and Margrethe. Owned the estate Skottenborg outside Christiansstad. Owed money to David Fleck of Elsinore and had claims to Major Patrick Dunbar and to Wm "Stratun" of Scotland.

T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.148.

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, KRISTIANSTAD

Arrived 1635-01-01

Departed 1653-07-31

Capacity MAYOR, COUNCILLOR, MERCHANT, purpose CIVIC, MERCANTILE, TRADE