Gerrit Smit, on June 1, 1737 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1737
• Saturday, 1 June
  Gerrit Smit (uit Deventer) joins as ship’s boy with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Schellag bound for Batavia
• Monday, 4 November
  156 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Schellag on the Cape
• Tuesday, 26 November
  22 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Schellag of the Cape
• 1738
• Saturday, 15 February
  81 days after departure from the Cape, 259 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Schellag in Batavia
• Return
• 1740
• Saturday, 2 April
  777 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Hartenlust with chamber Zeeland from Batavia
• Thursday, 6 October
  187 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Hartenlust on the Cape
• 1741
• Sunday, 8 January
  94 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Hartenlust from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Friday, 28 April
  110 days after departure from the Cape, 391 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Hartenlust in the Netherlands
  1427 days after employment
  Resignation Gerrit Smit (Hartenlust), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 12951, folio 136

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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