Jan Knoop, on May 3, 1742 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1742
• Thursday, 3 May
  Jan Knoop (uit Luijksloot) joins as sailor with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Beukestijn bound for Batavia
• Thursday, 23 August
  112 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Beukestijn on the Cape
• Sunday, 9 September
  17 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Beukestijn of the Cape
• Saturday, 17 November
  69 days after departure from the Cape, 198 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Beukestijn in Batavia
• Return
• 1744
• Friday, 24 January
  433 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Fortuin with chamber Amsterdam from Batavia
• Sunday, 26 April
  93 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Fortuin on the Cape
• Tuesday, 30 June
  65 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Fortuin from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Wednesday, 23 September
  85 days after departure from the Cape, 243 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Fortuin in the Netherlands
  874 days after employment
  Resignation Jan Knoop (Fortuin), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: No

The FORTUIN was a storeship. At the Cape it took over the cargo of the GUNTERSTIJN (see 7198). According to #.,4. 4390a Jan de Boer, former master of the GUNTERSTIJN, was master of the FORTUIN when it arrived at Texel; if so, he probably embarked at the

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6136, folio 77

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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