SEATON, ROBERT [SSNE 7577]

Surname

SEATON

First name

ROBERT

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

MASTER OF MINERALS

Text source

Robert Seaton, a ‘master of minerals’, was hired (via Robert Buchan de Portlethen) by Axel Oxenstierna in Scotland. he was to move to Sweden to develop mineral resources but died en route to his new employment.

SRA, AOSB, E575. Robert Buchan to Axel Oxenstierna, 2x lettrs, c.1643; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.179.

Service record

SWEDEN, SCOTLAND

Arrived 1643-01-01

Capacity MASTER OF MINERALS, purpose COMMERCE, COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT