Godfried Jacob Lau, on January 2, 1776 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1776
• Tuesday, 2 January
  Godfried Jacob Lau (uit Slagen) joins as soldier with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Tempel bound for Bengalen
• Wednesday, 10 July
  190 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Tempel on the Cape
• Friday, 26 July
  16 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Tempel of the Cape
• Friday, 25 October
  91 days after departure from the Cape, 297 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Tempel in Bengalen
• Return
• 1789
• Tuesday, 24 November
  4778 days after arrival in Bengalen
  Departure of the ship Zeeland with chamber Zeeland from Bengalen
• 1790
• Saturday, 13 February
  81 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Zeeland on the Cape
• Sunday, 7 March
  22 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Zeeland from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Saturday, 26 June
  111 days after departure from the Cape, 214 days after departure from Bengalen
  Arrival of the ship Zeeland in the Netherlands
  5289 days after employment
  Resignation Godfried Jacob Lau (Zeeland), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

The 111 seafarers included 26 Chinese; among the 12 passengers were a male and a female slave.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6628, folio 221

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.

This data was last updated on April 7, 2014 by the source holder and first published on Open Archives on July 3, 2014. Originele record identifier is 1585938.

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