PIGOTT, ALEXANDER [SSNE 8489]

Surname

PIGOTT, PIGOT, BIJGOT, SKOTTE, SCOT, SCHOT

First name

ALEXANDER, SANDER, ZANDER

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

TOBACCO SPINNER

Text source

Alexander Thomsson Pigott (also simply known as Sander Scott) was an apprentice tobacco spinner who was active in Stockholm in the 1660s. He may have come over from the Netherlands as his death inventory mentions his late mother and siblings in "Holland".

A day-worker named Zander appears in the earliest surviving Tobakskompaniet tobacco-spinners' salary list, dated 24 September 1664. On 15 October there is a reference to "Sander Sprenklare" (as in one whose role was to moisten dry tobacco leaves). This man is also noted as working as a tobacco crusher and roller. 

In November 1665 "Zander Pigot" is listed as a tobacco spinner, and he also appears as "Sander Schot", implying that he was a Scotsman.

His daily wage was 24öre copper coin, which in January 1667 rose to 1 daler copper coin. His salary as a tobacco spinner began at 3:24 daler copper coin in 1668. His output seems to have been marked by interruptions and gaps. In 1668 his greatest output lay at 9,000 pounds of tobacco.

Alexander Pigott was married the maid Margareta Henriksdotter(also noted as Hindersdotter) on 18 June 1668.

Alexander Pigott owned a farm on Södermalm, in the area known as Kattfoten. Its tax value was 300 daler.

The last time Alexander Pigott's name is recorded is on 16 September 1671, and he died not long thereafter. The total cost of his funeral at Maria kyrkan was 117 daler.

On 11 June 1672 his estate was inventoried. Apart from the farm on Södermalm Alexander Pigott owned a copper pot, an iron pot, a grey overcoat, a table cloth and minimal bedding (which belonged to his widow), and otherwise he owned 2 separate chests, 1 table, 2 oak wood chairs and some tools. He owed money on the farm (150 daler) and the "field marshall's wife's book-keeper" 40 daler, as well as 24 daler to Peter Lyall in a cash loan, and 12 daler to Robert Watson, apparently for stockings and other personal items. 

Source: Walter Loewe, Tobaksspinnarna och tobaksfabrikanterna i 1600-tals Stockholm (Stockholm, 1993), p.216-217.

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Service record

SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM

Arrived 1664-09-24, as TOBACCO APPRENTICE

Departed 1672-06-01

Capacity TOBACCO SPINNER, purpose TRADE, COMMERCIAL