Gerrit de Nijs, on October 4, 1758 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1758
• Wednesday, 4 October
  Gerrit de Nijs (uit Nimwegen) joins as ship’s boy with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Liefde bound for Batavia
• 1759
• Monday, 29 January
  117 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Liefde on the Cape
• Wednesday, 7 March
  37 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Liefde of the Cape
• Wednesday, 20 June
  105 days after departure from the Cape, 259 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Liefde in Batavia
• Return
• 1761
• Saturday, 17 January
  577 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Oranjezaal with chamber Amsterdam from Batavia
• Friday, 27 March
  69 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Oranjezaal on the Cape
• Wednesday, 22 April
  26 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Oranjezaal from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Saturday, 1 August
  101 days after departure from the Cape, 196 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Oranjezaal in the Netherlands
  1032 days after employment
  Resignation Gerrit de Nijs (Oranjezaal), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

Crew at the Cape: 706.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 13101, folio 178

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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