Jan Smit, on August 8, 1787 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1787
• Wednesday, 8 August
  Jan Smit (uit Amsterdam) joins as ship’s boy (jongen) with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Eik en Linde bound for Batavia
• 1788
• Sunday, 13 January
  158 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Eik en Linde on the Cape
• Sunday, 17 February
  35 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Eik en Linde of the Cape
• Monday, 12 May
  85 days after departure from the Cape, 278 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Eik en Linde in Batavia
• Return
• 1790
• Monday, 1 February
  630 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Pollux with chamber Zeeland from Batavia
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  85563 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Pollux on the Cape
• 1790
• Friday, 16 July
  85398 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Pollux from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Friday, 12 November
  119 days after departure from the Cape, 284 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Pollux in the Netherlands
  1192 days after employment
  Resignation Jan Smit (Pollux), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

Sailing to the Cape the POLLUX was overtaken by a heavy storm. Masts, rigging, and rudder were damaged, the hull got leaky. Part of the gunpowder was affected by water.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6768, folio 113

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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