Adriaan de Smit, on September 16, 1737 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1737
• Monday, 16 September
  Adriaan de Smit (uit St.pietershaar) joins as ship’s boy with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Wickenburg bound for Batavia
• 1738
• Saturday, 8 February
  145 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Wickenburg on the Cape
• Sunday, 16 March
  36 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Wickenburg of the Cape
• Friday, 6 June
  82 days after departure from the Cape, 263 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Wickenburg in Batavia
• Return
• 1742
• Friday, 19 January
  1323 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Horstendaal with chamber Amsterdam from Batavia
• Sunday, 22 April
  93 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Horstendaal on the Cape
• Friday, 11 May
  19 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Horstendaal from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Wednesday, 19 September
  131 days after departure from the Cape, 243 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Horstendaal in the Netherlands
  1829 days after employment
  Resignation Adriaan de Smit (Horstendaal), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

The 115 men aboard the HORSTENDAAL included 11 impotenten and 5 passengers. On 18-09-1742 the ship ran ashore between Callantsoog and Huisduinen in the Buizegat.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 12956, folio 140

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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