Willem Silvester, on June 8, 1771 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1771
• Saturday, 8 June
  Willem Silvester (uit Amsterdam) joins as skipper or master with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Vredelust bound for Batavia
• Sunday, 13 October
  127 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Vredelust on the Cape
• 1772
• Wednesday, 5 February
  115 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Vredelust of the Cape
• Saturday, 16 May
  101 days after departure from the Cape, 343 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Vredelust in Batavia
• Return
• 1777
• Thursday, 30 October
  1993 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Willem frederik with chamber Zeeland from Batavia
• 1778
• Friday, 16 January
  78 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Willem frederik on the Cape
• Wednesday, 4 March
  47 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Willem frederik from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Friday, 5 June
  93 days after departure from the Cape, 218 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Willem frederik in the Netherlands
  2554 days after employment
  Resignation Willem Silvester (Willem frederik), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: No

The 7 passengers included one female slave.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6551, folio 1

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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