CHRICHTON, [SSNE 6864]

Surname

CHRICHTON, CRICHTON

Title/rank

MAJOR

Nationality

SCOT

Text source

Major Crichton was a Scot who was perhaps in the service of Braunschweig-Luneburg in the 1670s. He was mentioned as being dead by April 1677 by Sir James Johnstone of Elphinstone [SSNE 2743]. Johnstone lamented "I have lost a number of good friends both Duch and other nations especially Collonell Bonar [SSNE 4749], Collonell Mollison [SSNE 6009], Major Chrichton and others all dead and killed

I have both mony horses, sevants and eqipage, as good as in the armie, as the Scots merchants that hath seen me in Hamburg can tell". Nothing else is yet known of Chrichton's career

National Archives of Scotland GD 190/3/195, Misc. correspondence (1639-1696), 24 April 1677, Sir James Johnstone of Elphinstone to his brother-in-law.

Service record

BRAUNSCHWEIG-LUNEBURG, BRAUNSCHWEIG-LUNEBURG

Arrived 1670-01-01, as MAJOR

Departed 1677-04-01, as MAJOR

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY