SPREULL, JOHN [SSNE 7186]
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John Spreull was a Scottish merchant in the second half of the seventeenth century. Between October and December 1675 he could be found in Bremen and Hamburg from where he corresponded with the Scottish merchant factor in Rotterdam, Andrew Russell [SSNE 143]. From his letter to Russell dated 29 November 1675, it is clear tht Spreull was also in contact with Scottish merchants in Gothenburg, like Robert Clerk [SSNE 6127] and others in Elsinore like Sir John Paul [SSNE 1177].National Archives of Scotland, Russell Papers, RH15/106/199. Various letters, John Spreull to Andrew Russell, 1675; T. C. Smout, Scottish Trade on the Eve of Union, 1660-1707 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp.79, 117, 121, 158, 222, 263, 291; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.159.
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- SCOTLAND, STUART KINGDOMS, BREMEN, HAMBURG
- Arrived 1675-10-01
- Departed 1676-01-30
- Capacity MERCHANT, purpose TRADE, COMMERCE