Jacob NN

NN, Jacob

• ~ 1666-09-25, Västerås, Sweden.
• † before 1720.

Was put through schooling to become a sämskmakare (Also in Swedish: garvning, English: tanning). Letter to the "shammy-guild" 1683-10-03 (Swedish: bördsbrev till sämskmakarämbetet). A sämskmakare worked with chamois leather, aka shammy, producing gloves etc. During Jacob's days in Sweden, the preferred hide providers were deer, reindeer, moose, sheep, goats but also cattle in general for a rougher and coarser end-produce.

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References

• Backman, Christina. “Lenins svenska anor.” Släkt och Hävd №1 (1995): 253–273, p. 256, 265.