Casper Meijer, on May 5, 1773 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1773
• Wednesday, 5 May
  Casper Meijer (uit Breesteede) joins as first mate with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Vrouwe Geertruida bound for Batavia
• Sunday, 1 August
  88 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Vrouwe Geertruida on the Cape
• Tuesday, 24 August
  23 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Vrouwe Geertruida of the Cape
• Sunday, 28 November
  96 days after departure from the Cape, 207 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Vrouwe Geertruida in Batavia
• Return
• 1774
• Thursday, 27 October
  333 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Compagnies welvaren with chamber Amsterdam from Batavia
• 1775
• Sunday, 15 January
  80 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Compagnies welvaren on the Cape
• Thursday, 2 February
  18 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Compagnies welvaren from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Monday, 15 May
  102 days after departure from the Cape, 200 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Compagnies welvaren in the Netherlands
  740 days after employment
  Resignation Casper Meijer (Compagnies Welvaren), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: No

The 7 passengers included one condemned person and a slave. The master of the COMPAGNIES WELVAREN, Stoffel Kok, was commandeur of the return fleet.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6583, folio 4

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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