Johann Heinrich Kost, on April 6, 1793 in the service of the Dutch East India Company
- Departure
- 1793
- Saturday, 6 April
Johann Heinrich Kost (uit Strasburg) joins as soldier with Regiment Württemberg. Departure of the ship Surseance bound for Batavia - Saturday, 13 July
98 days after departure
Arrival of the ship Surseance on the Cape - Tuesday, 30 July
17 days after arrival at the Cape
Departure of the ship Surseance of the Cape - Wednesday, 25 September
57 days after departure from the Cape, 172 days after departure from the Netherlands
Arrival of the ship Surseance in Batavia
Remarks
Month certificate: indistinct / Debenture: indistinct
Source citation
Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 12343, folio 1
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 1226232.
Internet address
https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/index/nt00444/NL-HaNA_1.04.02_12343A_0001.jpg
Comments
On Tuesday, 9 January Gary Cost wrote
I too, have a Johann Heinrich Kost in my family tree but he left Württemberg on the ship St. Mark, and landed in what became Philadelphia, PA in September 1741. One of his sons changed the spelling of the name to 'Cost', to sound more 'English'.
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