SEATON, JOHN [SSNE 3477]

Surname

SEATON

First name

JOHN

Title/rank

LIEUTENANT, COLONEL?

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

John Seaton was a reformed lieutenant in the Swedish army in 1630. He is possibly the same man as the John Seaton noted as colonel in the Swedish army in the 1630s

Swedish Riksarkiv, P. Sondén, Militärachefer i svenska arméen och deras skrivelser; Swedish Krigsarkiv, Muster Roll, 1630/23; Steve Murdoch and Alexia Grosjean, Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (London, 2014), p.97.

Service record

SWEDEN, JAMES RAMSAY

Arrived 1630-01-01, as REF. LIEUTENANT

Departed 1630-12-31, as REF. LIEUTENANT

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY