Joost Scholten, on December 16, 1775 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1775
• Saturday, 16 December
  Joost Scholten (uit Amsterdam) joins as junior ordinary seaman with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Westerveld bound for Ceylon
• 1776
• Tuesday, 16 April
  122 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Westerveld on the Cape
• Friday, 3 May
  17 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Westerveld of the Cape
• Thursday, 4 July
  62 days after departure from the Cape, 201 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Westerveld in Ceylon
• Return
• 1777
• Wednesday, 5 February
  216 days after arrival in Ceylon
  Departure of the ship Overhout with chamber Amsterdam from Ceylon
• Friday, 25 April
  79 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Overhout on the Cape
• Monday, 19 May
  24 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Overhout from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Arrival of the ship Overhout in the Netherlands
  Resignation Joost Scholten (Overhout), reason: shipwrecked

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

Nederland

On 31-08-1777 the OVERHOUT ran ashore near Egmond aan Zee and was wrecked.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6616, folio 136

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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