Jan van Vliet, on November 5, 1738 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1738
• Wednesday, 5 November
  Jan van Vliet (uit Camerijk) joins as junior ordinary seaman with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Reigersdaal bound for Batavia
• 1739
• Saturday, 7 March
  122 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Reigersdaal on the Cape
• Wednesday, 25 March
  18 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Reigersdaal of the Cape
• Saturday, 20 June
  87 days after departure from the Cape, 227 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Reigersdaal in Batavia
• Return
• 1741
• Tuesday, 7 November
  871 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Amsterdam with chamber Amsterdam from Batavia
• 1742
• Thursday, 25 January
  79 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Amsterdam on the Cape
• Thursday, 15 March
  49 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Amsterdam from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Arrival of the ship Amsterdam in the Netherlands
  Resignation Jan van Vliet (Amsterdam), reason: shipwrecked

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

Schotland

The 22 passengers aboard the AMSTERDAM included admi-raal Adriaan Valkenier with 5 servants and 13 lijfschutten (bodyguards). At the Cape this former Gouverneur-Generaal was arrested; he was accused by the future G.-G. Van Imhoff of being responsible for

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6072, folio 151

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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