LESLIE, WALTER [SSNE 980]

Surname

LESLIE

First name

WALTER

Title/rank

BURGESS

Nationality

SCOT

Region

ABERDEEN?

Social status

BURGESS

Text source

Walter Leslie was listed as a Scottish burgess in Danzig in 1695. He paid 2000 "gulden" for the privilege. It was probably this man who along with Thomas Leslie [SSNE 974] donated £203 toward the Marischal College, Aberdeen, restoration fund at the end of the seventeenth century

T. Fischer, The Scots in Eastern and Western Prussia (Edinburgh, 1903), p.197; T. Fischer, The Scots in Germany (Edinburgh, 1902), p.268.

Service record

POLAND, DANZIG

Arrived 1695-01-01

Departed 1695-12-31

Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC