Jan Menu, on July 7, 1784 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1784
• Wednesday, 7 July
  Jan Menu (uit Middelburg) joins as ship’s boy with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Schelde bound for Batavia
• Friday, 26 November
  142 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Schelde on the Cape
• 1785
• Saturday, 8 January
  43 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Schelde of the Cape
• Saturday, 19 March
  70 days after departure from the Cape, 255 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Schelde in Batavia
• Return
• 1786
• Thursday, 26 October
  586 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Schelde with chamber Amsterdam from Batavia
• 1787
• Wednesday, 17 January
  83 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Schelde on the Cape
• Tuesday, 13 March
  55 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Schelde from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Tuesday, 26 June
  105 days after departure from the Cape, 243 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Schelde in the Netherlands
  1084 days after employment
  Resignation Jan Menu (Schelde), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

If fO The 12 passengers included 7 slaves. Aboard the SCHELDE was Adriaan Boesses, commandeur of the ships, which departed from the Cape on 13-03-1787.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 13252, folio 139

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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