Willem van der Voort, on December 26, 1750 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1750
• Saturday, 26 December
  Willem van der Voort (uit Amsterdam) joins as ship’s boy with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Luxemburg bound for Ceylon
• 1751
• Tuesday, 27 April
  122 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Luxemburg on the Cape
• Saturday, 8 May
  11 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Luxemburg of the Cape
• Thursday, 8 July
  61 days after departure from the Cape, 194 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Luxemburg in Ceylon
• Return
• 1753
• Thursday, 15 November
  861 days after arrival in Ceylon
  Departure of the ship Akerendam with chamber Amsterdam from Ceylon
• 1754
• Monday, 14 January
  60 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Akerendam on the Cape
• Sunday, 3 February
  20 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Akerendam from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Tuesday, 14 May
  100 days after departure from the Cape, 180 days after departure from Ceylon
  Arrival of the ship Akerendam in the Netherlands
  1235 days after employment
  Resignation Willem van der Voort (Akerendam), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

Crew at the Cape: 136.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6263, folio 199

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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