Pieter van Gent, on May 20, 1754 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1754
• Monday, 20 May
  Pieter van Gent (uit Uttrecht) joins as ship’s boy with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Kievitsheuvel bound for Ceylon
• Sunday, 6 October
  139 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Kievitsheuvel on the Cape
• Wednesday, 30 October
  24 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Kievitsheuvel of the Cape
• 1755
• Tuesday, 4 March
  125 days after departure from the Cape, 288 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Kievitsheuvel in Ceylon
• Return
• 1757
• Monday, 12 December
  1014 days after arrival in Ceylon
  Departure of the ship Vrijburg with chamber Zeeland from Ceylon
• 1758
• Wednesday, 5 April
  114 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Vrijburg on the Cape
• Wednesday, 26 April
  21 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Vrijburg from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Friday, 8 September
  135 days after departure from the Cape, 270 days after departure from Ceylon
  Arrival of the ship Vrijburg in the Netherlands
  1572 days after employment
  Resignation Pieter van Gent (Vrijburg), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

Crew at the Cape: 96.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6325, folio 187

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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