WATSON, THOMAS [SSNE 7263]
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Thomas Watson was a resident merchant in Vasa in Finland. He was the brother of the Abo merchant, Alexander Watson. He was said to have visited the town in 1637 and to have been resident from 1640 onwards, and is said to have been dead by 1654.
NLS Adv MS 33.1.1 vol. 8, no. 24 Letter, Council in Edinburgh to the King in London, dated at Edinburgh 20 June 1617. Thomas Watson, merchand burges of Edinburgh, ‘proporting that he having thir divers yeiris bygane travellit to the Kingdome of Swaden in the lauchfull trade of merchandise quhair ordinarilie he maid sale of his commoditye to the king him selff who standis debtfull to him be his last yeiris comot in sevin thowsand dolouris…’
Veli-Pekka Toropainen, Skottirotta ja Ruotsin koira - Turun ulkomaalainen porvaristo vuosina 1600-1660 (Genos, 2003), p.212; Armas Luukko, Vaasan historia I, Vaasa 1971. Thanks to Bengt Rostedt for this last reference and Lennart Watz for his comments.
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- SWEDEN,
- Arrived 1617-06-20
- Capacity MERCHANT, purpose TRADE, COMMERCE
- SWEDEN, VASA, FINLAND
- Arrived 1630-01-01
- Departed 1640-12-31
- Capacity MERCHANT, purpose TRADE, COMMERCE