CASSILLS, JAMES [SSNE 7147]
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James Cassills was a skipper involved with the joint stock company of Andrew Russell [SSNE 143], Patrick Thomson, [SSNE 6475], James Thomson [SSNE 6332] (both Sweden) and Patrick Turnbull in Stirling. He appears frequently in the Russell papers in letters from the Thomson brothers. Occasionally he wrote in his own right. In May 1685, Cassills was in Norrkoping with his colleague John Gib (Younger) [SSNE 7072]. According to a letter of Patrick Thomson, by 8 June both men had sailed from Sweden while Patrick also sent Russell another letter and account of the loading on board the ship to Russell on the same day. Also on 8 June, Cassells drew up a bill of anchorage which he dated Elsinore. On 15/25 the same month he wrote from Elsinore that he had arrived with John Gib and expected to find Russell's order waiting for him. However, he also had been advised by Patrick Thomson to make for Amsterdam, which Cassills said he would do if he did not hear to the contrary from Russell. On 13 June, Thomson wrote again to Russell confirming the loading and the value thereof of both Cassells and Gib's ships. Cassellis sailed the Helien.National Archives of Scotland, Russell Papers, RH/15/106 passim; RH15/106/574. Various letters of James and Patrick Thomson (1685) & Bill of Anchorage, 8 June 1685; RH15/106/576/2 Cassills to Russell, 15 June 1685; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.81.
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- SCOTLAND, SWEDEN, DENMARK, THE DUTCH REPUBLIC
- Arrived 1680-01-01
- Departed 1686-12-31
- Capacity SKIPPER, purpose TRADE
- SCOTLAND, STUART KINGDOMS, ELSINORE
- Arrived 1685-06-08
- Capacity SKIPPER, purpose TRADE
- SCOTLAND, STUART KINGDOMS, NORRKOPING
- Departed 1685-06-08
- Capacity SKIPPER, purpose TRADE