Pieter van Ressum, on November 15, 1765 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1765
• Friday, 15 November
  Pieter van Ressum (uit Groningen) joins as ship’s boy with chamber Delft. Departure of the ship Zilveren Leeuw bound for Batavia
• 1766
• Saturday, 22 February
  99 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Zilveren Leeuw on the Cape
• Friday, 14 March
  20 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Zilveren Leeuw of the Cape
• Saturday, 7 June
  85 days after departure from the Cape, 204 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Zilveren Leeuw in Batavia
• Return
• 1767
• Friday, 6 November
  517 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Huis te bijweg with chamber Amsterdam from Batavia
• 1768
• Saturday, 2 January
  57 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Huis te bijweg on the Cape
• Tuesday, 2 February
  31 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Huis te bijweg from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Friday, 20 May
  108 days after departure from the Cape, 196 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Huis te bijweg in the Netherlands
  917 days after employment
  Resignation Pieter van Ressum (Huis te bijweg), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

The 1 1 passengers included 2 slaves. Commandeur of the return fleet was Jan van Eysden, master of the DUINENBURG (7741).

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 14027, folio 174

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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