Melt van Leeuwen, on October 2, 1769 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1769
• Monday, 2 October
  Melt van Leeuwen (uit Rotterdam) joins as quartermaster with chamber Delft. Departure of the ship Erfprins bound for Batavia
• 1770
• Friday, 9 February
  130 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Erfprins on the Cape
• Saturday, 10 March
  29 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Erfprins of the Cape
• Sunday, 27 May
  78 days after departure from the Cape, 237 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Erfprins in Batavia
• Return
• Saturday, 10 November
  167 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Ridderkerk with chamber Hoorn from Batavia
• 1771
• Thursday, 3 January
  54 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Ridderkerk on the Cape
• Saturday, 9 February
  37 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Ridderkerk from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Friday, 24 May
  104 days after departure from the Cape, 195 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Ridderkerk in the Netherlands
  599 days after employment
  Resignation Melt van Leeuwen (Ridderkerk), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

The 5 passengers included one condemned person.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 14033, folio 22

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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