Jacob Dirks, on May 14, 1788 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1788
• Wednesday, 14 May
  Jacob Dirks (uit Hinloopen) joins as sailor with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Vredenburg bound for Batavia
• 1789
• Wednesday, 11 February
  273 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Vredenburg on the Cape
• Wednesday, 11 March
  28 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Vredenburg of the Cape
• Friday, 29 May
  79 days after departure from the Cape, 380 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Vredenburg in Batavia
• Return
• Monday, 26 October
  150 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Rozenburg with chamber Delft from Batavia
• 1790
• Friday, 8 January
  74 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Rozenburg on the Cape
• Friday, 26 February
  49 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Rozenburg from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Wednesday, 23 June
  117 days after departure from the Cape, 240 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Rozenburg in the Netherlands
  770 days after employment
  Resignation Jacob Dirks (Rozenburg), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: No

The 101 seaferers included 26 Chinese. Among the 12 passengers were 5 female slaves, and 2 survivors of the English man-of-war BOUNTY (see the VLIJT, 8258); both died very soon after having embarked on the ROZENBURG. On 29-12-1789, during a haevy storm,

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6780, folio 134

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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