Wouter Geerts, on June 16, 1775 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1775
• Friday, 16 June
  Wouter Geerts (uit Glimmen) joins as ship gunner with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Landskroon bound for Batavia
• 1776
• Monday, 17 June
  367 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Landskroon on the Cape
• Wednesday, 10 July
  23 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Landskroon of the Cape
• Wednesday, 18 September
  70 days after departure from the Cape, 460 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Landskroon in Batavia
• Return
• Friday, 25 October
  37 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Bleijenburg with chamber Rotterdam from Batavia
• Tuesday, 31 December
  67 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Bleijenburg on the Cape
• 1777
• Monday, 3 February
  34 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Bleijenburg from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Tuesday, 20 May
  106 days after departure from the Cape, 207 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Bleijenburg in the Netherlands
  704 days after employment
  Resignation Wouter Geerts (Bleijenburg), reason: deceased

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

Commandeur of the return fleet was Kornelis Pietersen, master of the BOTLAND (see 7969).

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6620, folio 77

VOC - voyagers, this index was developed through a joint initiative of the archives of Delft and Rotterdam, Zeeuws archief, Westfries Archief (Hoorn and Enkhuizen) and the departments of history from the Universities of Leiden and Ghent.

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