Jan van Poelwijk, on December 31, 1754 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1754
• Tuesday, 31 December
  Jan van Poelwijk (uit Amsterdam) joins as quartermaster with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Akerendam bound for Batavia
• 1755
• Wednesday, 26 March
  85 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Akerendam on the Cape
• Wednesday, 16 April
  21 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Akerendam of the Cape
• Monday, 23 June
  68 days after departure from the Cape, 174 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Akerendam in Batavia
• Return
• 1757
• Monday, 14 February
  602 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Naarstigheid with chamber Delft from Batavia
• 
  98066 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Naarstigheid on the Cape
• Arrival of the ship Naarstigheid in the Netherlands
  Resignation Jan van Poelwijk (Naarstigheid), reason: deceased

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

The NAARSTIGHEID departed from Bengal twelve days late (see 7498 and 7499). In June 1757 the ship reached Delagoa Bay in a very tumbledown conditon; on 01-07-1757 the NAARSTIGHEID was finally given up and set on fire. Its cargo was transported to the Cap

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6323, folio 21

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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