Thomas Meester, on May 25, 1739 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1739
• Monday, 25 May
  Thomas Meester (uit Veere) joins as senior (ship) carpenter with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Abbekerk bound for Ceylon
• Tuesday, 22 September
  120 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Abbekerk on the Cape
• Sunday, 11 October
  19 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Abbekerk of the Cape
• Tuesday, 22 December
  72 days after departure from the Cape, 211 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Abbekerk in Ceylon
• Return
• 1744
• Saturday, 10 October
  1754 days after arrival in Ceylon
  Departure of the ship Krabbendijke with chamber Amsterdam from Ceylon
• 1745
• Friday, 1 January
  83 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Krabbendijke on the Cape
• Friday, 16 April
  105 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Krabbendijke from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Tuesday, 24 August
  130 days after departure from the Cape, 318 days after departure from Ceylon
  Arrival of the ship Krabbendijke in the Netherlands
  2283 days after employment
  Resignation Thomas Meester (Krabbendijke), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

From 30-12-1744 till 01-01-1745 the KRABBENDUKE was at anchor off Robben Island.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 12972, folio 30

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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