Christiaan Aswalt, on August 7, 1788 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1788
• Thursday, 7 August
  Christiaan Aswalt (uit Wiertsburg) joins as junior ordinary seaman with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Noord-holland bound for Batavia
• Friday, 19 December
  134 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Noord-holland on the Cape
• 1789
• Wednesday, 14 January
  26 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Noord-holland of the Cape
• Tuesday, 7 April
  83 days after departure from the Cape, 243 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Noord-holland in Batavia
• Return
• 1790
• Thursday, 18 November
  590 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Sint laurens with chamber Zeeland from Batavia
• 1791
• Saturday, 2 April
  135 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Sint laurens on the Cape
• Sunday, 17 July
  106 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Sint laurens from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Tuesday, 15 November
  121 days after departure from the Cape, 362 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Sint laurens in the Netherlands
  1195 days after employment
  Resignation Christiaan Aswalt (Sint Laurens), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

Originally the ST. LAURENS departed from the Cape on 02-05-1791. Because of leakage and heavy damage to masts and rigging, however, the ship had to return.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6783, folio 66

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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