Jan Caspers, on April 25, 1743 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1743
• Thursday, 25 April
  Jan Caspers (uit Hamburg) joins as sailor with chamber Delft. Departure of the ship Strijen bound for Batavia
• Saturday, 14 September
  142 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Strijen on the Cape
• 1744
• Tuesday, 20 October
  402 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Strijen of the Cape
• Friday, 3 January
  291 days after departure from the Cape, 253 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Strijen in Batavia
• Return
• 1748
• Thursday, 18 January
  1476 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Sparenrijk with chamber Amsterdam from Batavia
• Friday, 5 April
  78 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Sparenrijk on the Cape
• Wednesday, 24 April
  19 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Sparenrijk from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Monday, 2 September
  131 days after departure from the Cape, 228 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Sparenrijk in the Netherlands
  1957 days after employment
  Resignation Jan Caspers (Sparenrijk), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

The 108 men aboard the SPARENDIJK included 7 passengers. From 21-03 till 05-04-1748 the ship was at anchor off Robben Island.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 13975, folio 53

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.