CHRICHTON, [SSNE 6864]
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Major Crichton was a Scot who was perhaps in the service of Braunschweig-Luneburg in the 1670s. He was mentioned as being dead by April 1677 by Sir James Johnstone of Elphinstone [SSNE 2743]. Johnstone lamented "I have lost a number of good friends both Duch and other nations especially Collonell Bonar [SSNE 4749], Collonell Mollison [SSNE 6009], Major Chrichton and others all dead and killedI have both mony horses, sevants and eqipage, as good as in the armie, as the Scots merchants that hath seen me in Hamburg can tell". Nothing else is yet known of Chrichton's career
National Archives of Scotland GD 190/3/195, Misc. correspondence (1639-1696), 24 April 1677, Sir James Johnstone of Elphinstone to his brother-in-law.
Service record
- BRAUNSCHWEIG-LUNEBURG, BRAUNSCHWEIG-LUNEBURG
- Departed 1677-04-01, as MAJOR
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY