Investor pen portraits
Thomas Fullarton of Gallery (c.1655-1727)
From Montrose to East Jersey Thomas Fullarton was born around 1655 in the parish of Montrose, Angus, one of the younger sons of John Fullarton of Kinnaber and Katherine Allardyce. This Kinnaber family had mercantile interests including lucrative rights to salmon fishing as far afield as Caithness. Thomas and his
Gawen Drummond of Locharbor (1659–1724)
From a merchant family in Prestonpans Gawen Drummond was born in 1659 in Prestonpans, East Lothian, the son of merchant Robert Drummond and Isabel Melvine. He was baptised on 19 June 1659, with George Makclaine and George Wallace acting as witnesses. By 1682, he was working as a merchant in
David Toschach of Monzievaird (c.1645-1689)
David Toschach, 7th of Monzievaird, led a party of 25 emigrants to East New Jersey in 1685 and set up a fur trading post in New York. David Toschach [or Tosheoch] was born around 1645 in the parish of Monzievaird and Strowan, Perthshire into a minor landed family. He was
David Falconar (c.1632-1713)
David Falconar played a significant role in the East Jersey venture as a promoter and investor and was a leading member of the Quaker community in Scotland. David Falconar (or Falconer) was born around 1632, the eldest son of Sir John Falconer, Master of the Cunziehouse (the Scottish Mint), and