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nature of the Scots it need not astonish us that we meet
Scottish names in expeditions of the kind. Jacob Galbraith
was a Lieutenant on the privateer Sfofvare; Andrew
Whit-locke, Serjeant on the Svenska Vapnet; and Jonas Styfvart,
Captain of a third vessel (1710).1
In the meantime the large number of Scottish officers,
and in a lesser degree of Scottish merchants, who had
been gifted with estates during the time of Gustavus
Adolphus and Christina, had settled in the country of their
adoption. With a lavish hand patents of nobility had
been dealt out to them, even to those that hardly would
have been considered to rank among the gentry at home.
They had married in Sweden—at first frequently their own
countrywomen—they had founded families that soon only
through their names told of Scottish origin. They had
been buried in many a proud church or quiet country
churchyard throughout Sweden. An examination of the
list of Swedish noble families in the XVIIth century
proves that a very large number were of Scottish
extraction,1 2 and even now many of the old Scottish
family names meet the eye in the Swedish Peerage and
Baronetage. The foreign branches had become
ingrafted, nourished by, and grown into one with the
native tree. The adopted country had in every sense of
the word become their “Fosterland.”
1 See Berg, Samlingar till Göteborgs Hist. ii. 336.
2 See Supplement. A list of Scottish family names among the
Swedish nobility has been given before, by Marry at, in his One Tear in
Sweden, and by Professor Donner of Helsingfors in his little book written
for the Tercentenary of the University of Edinburgh. The former
author, if reliable, is very prolix, and includes many English families ; the
latter does not claim any completeness. It seemed to me to be especially
desirable to let the reader see at a glance which families are extinct and
which not; I have therefore, at the risk of unnecessarily increasing the
size of the book, added the new list in the Appendix.
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