Jan de Wit, on May 15, 1742 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1742
• Tuesday, 15 May
  Jan de Wit (uit Sante) joins as ship gunner with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Everswaart bound for Batavia
• Tuesday, 11 September
  119 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Everswaart on the Cape
• Wednesday, 3 October
  22 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Everswaart of the Cape
• 1743
• Tuesday, 8 January
  97 days after departure from the Cape, 238 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Everswaart in Batavia
• Return
• Thursday, 17 October
  282 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Herstelder with chamber Zeeland from Batavia
• 1744
• Thursday, 9 January
  84 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Herstelder on the Cape
• Thursday, 5 March
  56 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Herstelder from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Wednesday, 17 June
  104 days after departure from the Cape, 244 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Herstelder in the Netherlands
  764 days after employment
  Resignation Jan de Wit (Herstelder), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: No

The HERSTELDER was a man-of-war. Dirk Wolter van Nimwegen was commandeur of the return fleet.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 12995, folio 51

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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