Benjamin Jansen, on January 15, 1758 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1758
• Sunday, 15 January
  Benjamin Jansen (uit Jeweren) joins as ship gunner with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Slot van Kapelle bound for Batavia
• Friday, 19 May
  124 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Slot van Kapelle on the Cape
• Tuesday, 13 June
  25 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Slot van Kapelle of the Cape
• Tuesday, 22 August
  70 days after departure from the Cape, 219 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Slot van Kapelle in Batavia
• Return
• 1759
• Wednesday, 2 May
  253 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Buitenzorg with chamber Amsterdam from Batavia
• Friday, 20 July
  79 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Buitenzorg on the Cape
• Monday, 13 August
  24 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Buitenzorg from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Saturday, 24 November
  103 days after departure from the Cape, 206 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Buitenzorg in the Netherlands
  678 days after employment
  Resignation Benjamin Jansen (Buitenzorg), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

The three passengers included one condemned person. After having been unloaded the BUTTENZORG was wrecked off Texel.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6368, folio 54

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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