JOHAN GYLLENSTING, letter dated Bender 1709.

JOHAN GYLLENSTING, military. Manuscript, dated Bender on December 5, 1709. Personally written and signed and with a damaged wax seal. Later handwriting at the bottom reading “Signed received this banknote in Häggum on 18 Jan. 1869 by bricklayer Dahlberg A. Engquist”.
Folio (300x215). (1) pp. Has been folded and with some rips in the folds as well as completely deal along one of the horizontal folds. Sunny and with a damp spot in text.

The letter informs that Gyllensting has borrowed 440 daler silver coins from Evert Lund, “the first money I owe myself, with the first to pay again, as soon as I arrive at the place, as soon as one can have free passage and correspondence to Swerige”.
Johan Gyllensting (years of life unknown), son of Per Gyllensting (1643-1709), was a cornet and field debater at the Livdragoon Regiment. He accompanied Charles XII to Bender and there became a cornet at the Benderska dragoon regiment. The tables of the nobility briefly announce Gyllensting: “lost in 1714 and then was not heard of”.