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Stray Notes.
A Col. W. Bonar was severely wounded at Glogau in
1649. He became governor of the small fortress of
Vechla,1 after having sent a letter to the Pfalzgraf, Karl
Gastav, asking for a donation or a pension, “ inasmuch as
he was quite incapable of seeking his fortune elsewhere,
owing to his grievous wound” (1653).
Sinclairsholm, the seat of the Sinclairs in Skåne, was
erected by Henry Sinclair, a relation of Lord Sinclair of
Dysart. One Andrew Sinclair lived there in 1607.
Col. Gunn, an “ arch-Catholic, on whom there is no
reliance,” Banér writes to Oxenstierna in 1637, Aug. 10th.
Alex. Irving, son of Col. Alex. Irving (11659),
married the widow of a Judge Kinnemundt, and fell in a
duel with Aaron Mörner in 1665.
Two brothers Spalding, one of them a Major, were
killed before Frederikshall in 1716.
Frederick Spalding is mentioned as Secretary to the
Swedish Embassy at Petersburg. His son, born in 1770,
became a Russian General.
Robt. Guthrie, Capt. His widow married again and
became the mother of the famous Swedish General,
Forsten Stålhansk.
Will. Guthrie was appointed interpreter “for the
English and Scottish languages ” by the Magistrates of
Stockholm in 1680, July 7th. He was also a Notarius
Publicus. In one document he signs himself “Minister
in Scotland.”
George Guthrie, the son of Walter, a merchant in
1 Vechla, a small town in Oldenburg, not far from Bremen.
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