Robbert Smits, on November 4, 1738 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1738
• Tuesday, 4 November
  Robbert Smits (uit Edenburg in schotland) joins as sailor with chamber Rotterdam. Departure of the ship Rijnhuizen bound for Batavia
• 1739
• Thursday, 26 February
  114 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Rijnhuizen on the Cape
• Tuesday, 10 March
  12 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Rijnhuizen of the Cape
• Tuesday, 30 June
  112 days after departure from the Cape, 238 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Rijnhuizen in Batavia
• Return
• 1742
• Sunday, 7 January
  922 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Maarsseveen with chamber Amsterdam from Batavia
• Wednesday, 25 April
  108 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Maarsseveen on the Cape
• Friday, 11 May
  16 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Maarsseveen from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Tuesday, 18 September
  130 days after departure from the Cape, 254 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Maarsseveen in the Netherlands
  1414 days after employment
  Resignation Robbert Smits (Maarseveen), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

The 122 men aboard the MAARSSEVEEN included 14 impotenten and 3 passengers. Gerrit van der Tolle was vice-common-deur of the ships which departed from the Cape on 1 1-05-1 742; commandeur was Jan Paul Schagen aboard the WELTEVRE-DEN (7144).

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 14188, folio 93

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 1469457.

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