Joost Scheffer, on June 3, 1763 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1763
• Friday, 3 June
  Joost Scheffer (uit Munster) joins as soldier with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Lekkerland bound for Ceylon
• Friday, 23 September
  112 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Lekkerland on the Cape
• Monday, 31 October
  38 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Lekkerland of the Cape
• 1764
• Friday, 3 February
  95 days after departure from the Cape, 245 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Lekkerland in Ceylon
• Return
• 1776
• Friday, 25 October
  4648 days after arrival in Ceylon
  Departure of the ship Bovenkerker polder with chamber Amsterdam from Ceylon
• Sunday, 29 December
  65 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Bovenkerker polder on the Cape
• 1777
• Saturday, 18 January
  20 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Bovenkerker polder from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Monday, 5 May
  107 days after departure from the Cape, 192 days after departure from Ceylon
  Arrival of the ship Bovenkerker polder in the Netherlands
  5085 days after employment
  Resignation Joost Scheffer (Bovenkerker Polder), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

The 10 passengers included 7 condemned persons and a female slave.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6427, folio 387

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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