Gerrit de Ruijter, on April 20, 1708 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1708
• Friday, 20 April
  Gerrit de Ruijter (uit Gouda) joins as soldier with chamber Rotterdam. Departure of the ship Grimmestein bound for Batavia
• Thursday, 6 September
  139 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Grimmestein on the Cape
• Wednesday, 26 September
  20 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Grimmestein of the Cape
• Saturday, 22 December
  87 days after departure from the Cape, 246 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Grimmestein in Batavia
• Return
• 1714
• Monday, 26 November
  2165 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Rijnestein with chamber Rotterdam from Batavia
• 1715
• Tuesday, 26 February
  92 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Rijnestein on the Cape
• Friday, 5 April
  38 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Rijnestein from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Tuesday, 6 August
  123 days after departure from the Cape, 253 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Rijnestein in the Netherlands
  2664 days after employment
  Resignation Gerrit de Ruijter (Rijnenstein), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: No

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 14116, folio 168

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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