Wouter Cant, on October 18, 1755 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1755
• Saturday, 18 October
  Wouter Cant (uit Alblas) joins as ship gunner with chamber Delft. Departure of the ship Gerechtigheid bound for Batavia
• 1756
• Sunday, 18 January
  92 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Gerechtigheid on the Cape
• Monday, 26 January
  8 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Gerechtigheid of the Cape
• Tuesday, 13 April
  78 days after departure from the Cape, 178 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Gerechtigheid in Batavia
• Return
• 1757
• Saturday, 29 October
  564 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Marienbos with chamber Amsterdam from Batavia
• 1758
• Wednesday, 11 January
  74 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Marienbos on the Cape
• Sunday, 26 February
  46 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Marienbos from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Thursday, 15 June
  109 days after departure from the Cape, 229 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Marienbos in the Netherlands
  971 days after employment
  Resignation Wouter Cant (Mariënbos), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

The eleven passengers include one slave and two condemned persons; the criminals and one other passenger disembarked at the Cape. After the arrival of the ship at patria its name was altered into LEKKERLAND (see 3755/7611 and 3867/-).

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 14006, folio 58

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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