Pieter Elst, on January 4, 1780 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1780
• Tuesday, 4 January
  Pieter Elst (uit Zirkzee) joins as ship gunner with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Amsterdam bound for Ceylon
• Monday, 1 May
  118 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Amsterdam on the Cape
• Thursday, 18 May
  17 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Amsterdam of the Cape
• Tuesday, 11 July
  54 days after departure from the Cape, 189 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Amsterdam in Ceylon
• Return
• 1784
• Wednesday, 10 March
  1338 days after arrival in Ceylon
  Departure of the ship Morgenster with chamber Amsterdam from Ceylon
• Wednesday, 2 June
  84 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Morgenster on the Cape
• Wednesday, 14 July
  42 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Morgenster from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Wednesday, 17 November
  126 days after departure from the Cape, 252 days after departure from Ceylon
  Arrival of the ship Morgenster in the Netherlands
  1779 days after employment
  Resignation Pieter Elst (Morgenster), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

See also the GANGES (8106). On 29-10-1785 the Heren XVII decided to lay the MORGENSTER up.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6688, folio 38

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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