Gerrit Blom, on February 22, 1700 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1700
• Monday, 22 February
  Gerrit Blom (uit Vlissingen) joins as sailor with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Schellag bound for Batavia
• Sunday, 13 June
  111 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Schellag on the Cape
• Wednesday, 21 July
  38 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Schellag of the Cape
• Friday, 10 September
  51 days after departure from the Cape, 200 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Schellag in Batavia
• Return
• 1702
• Wednesday, 29 November
  810 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Domburg with chamber Zeeland from Batavia
• 1703
• Thursday, 15 March
  106 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Domburg on the Cape
• Tuesday, 10 April
  26 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Domburg from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Wednesday, 8 August
  120 days after departure from the Cape, 252 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Domburg in the Netherlands
  1262 days after employment
  Resignation Gerrit Blom (Domburg), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

Commandeur of the combined return fleet (6079-6093) was Ja-kob Brock, master of the SPIEGEL (6087); Jan de Wersijn, master of the OOSTERSTEIN (6085), was vice-commandeur; schout-bij-nacht was Jakob Joppe de long, master of the REIGERS-DAAL (6086).

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 12678, folio 40

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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