KINNAIRD, JAMES [SSNE 4843]

Surname

KINNAIRD, KINCAIRD, KINCAID, KINKAID, KINKET, CINCAID

First name

JAMES, JACOB

Title/rank

LIEUTENANT

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

Lieutenant James Kinnaird was a Scottish officer serving in Captain James Bannatyne's [SSNE 1922] company in Swedish service from 1627-9. He and John Sommerville were sent to Scotland to obtain recruits for Bannatyne's company of James Ramsay's [SSNE 3315]regiment

Rikskansleren Axel Oxenstiernas Skrifter och Brefvexling, first series, III, p.678; Swedish Krigsarkiv, MR October 1628, f.95 and Muster Roll, 1628/6-11, 13-15; 1629/5,6; Alexia Grosjean, An Unofficial Alliance: Scotland and Sweden, 1568-1654 (Brill, Leiden, 2003), p.61; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.273.

Service record

SWEDEN, ELBING

Arrived 1627-01-01, as LIEUTENANT

Departed 1629-12-31, as LIEUTENANT

Capacity OFFICER, purpose OFFICER