BEATON, FRANCIS [SSNE 6947]
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Captain Lieutenant Francis Beaton served in the regiment of Sir Frederick Hamilton [SSNE 1184] in Swedish service in 1632. He was killed during the siege of Duderstadt by a shot to the shoulder. There is a letter from Colonel John Monro of Obsdale [SSNE 178] to Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun written at Duderstadt and dated 3 August 1632. In it, the capture of the town of Duderstadt is also discussed. Monro reported that it was ‘quhair Captane Betoune, Doctor Beatounes sone, was killit, ane hoipfull brawe gentelman’. Bannerman implicitly makes Francis the son of Neil Óg Beaton of Culnaskeath (Ross-shire).
The Swedish Intelligencer: The Fourth Part (London, 1633), p. 144; J. Bannerman, The Beatons: A Medical Kindred in the Classical Gaelic Tradition (Edinburgh, 1998), pp. 72-3 quoting The Sutherland Book, ed. W. Fraser, 3 vols. (Edinburgh, 1892), II, p. 156. This record was kindly updated by Dr Thomas Brochard.
Service record
- SWEDEN, SIR FREDERICK HAMILTON
- Departed 1632-07-30, as LIEUTENANT CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY