Jan de Nijs, on May 26, 1746 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1746
• Thursday, 26 May
  Jan de Nijs (uit Ter goes) joins as junior ordinary seaman with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Westkapelle bound for Batavia
• Wednesday, 26 October
  153 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Westkapelle on the Cape
• Tuesday, 22 November
  27 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Westkapelle of the Cape
• 1747
• Thursday, 2 March
  100 days after departure from the Cape, 280 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Westkapelle in Batavia
• Return
• Thursday, 30 March
  28 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Polanen with chamber Amsterdam from Batavia
• Wednesday, 26 July
  118 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Polanen on the Cape
• Saturday, 12 August
  17 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Polanen from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• 1748
• Friday, 7 June
  300 days after departure from the Cape, 435 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Polanen in the Netherlands
  743 days after employment
  Resignation Jan de Nijs (Polanen), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

Bastiaan Mol was master till the Cape; Kornelis Breeders succeeded him.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 13019, folio 111

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.

Permalink https://hdl.handle.net/10648/c51e6d6c-c864-11e6-9d8b-00505693001d