GALBRAITH, GEORGE [SSNE 6989]
Text source
In 1669, James Johnstone, later 2nd Earl of Annandale signed a contract with George Galbraith to serve as his factor in Riga for a period of eight months. The object of the mission was to recover 7000 rixdaler due to a distant relative, Mary Johnstone
National Register of Archives of Scotland [NRAS], 2171/bundle 126 (c.1650-1670), Contract, 1664 (mis-catalogued as 1669); Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), pp.152, 232.
Service record
- SCOTLAND, SWEDEN, RIGA, SWEDEN
- Arrived 1669-06-01
- Capacity COMMERCIAL FACTOR, MERCHANT, purpose MERCANTILE, DIPLOMACY, TRADE