FORBES, PETER [SSNE 969]

Surname
FORBES
First name
PETER, PATRICK?
Title/rank
BURGESS
Nationality
SCOT
Region
ABERDEEN
Social status
BURGESS

Text source

Peter Forbes was a Scottish burgess of Danzig in 1685. He was from Aberdeen. It may be this man who supplied £280 for the Marischall College Aberdeen restoration fund in 1684.

Sources: T. Fischer, The Scots in Eastern and Western Prussia (Edinburgh, 1903), p.196; T. Fischer, The Scots in Germany (Edinburgh, 1902), p.268.

Service record

POLAND, DANZIG
Arrived 1685-01-01
Departed 1685-12-31
Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC