Jan van Akkeren, on December 30, 1757 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1757
• Friday, 30 December
  Jan van Akkeren (uit Amsterdam) joins as sailor with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Giessenburg bound for Ceylon
• 1758
• Saturday, 13 May
  134 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Giessenburg on the Cape
• Wednesday, 24 May
  11 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Giessenburg of the Cape
• Wednesday, 16 August
  84 days after departure from the Cape, 229 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Giessenburg in Ceylon
• Return
• 1760
• Monday, 28 April
  621 days after arrival in Ceylon
  Departure of the ship Blijdorp with chamber Amsterdam from Ceylon
• Saturday, 19 July
  82 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Blijdorp on the Cape
• Saturday, 9 August
  21 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Blijdorp from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Thursday, 6 November
  89 days after departure from the Cape, 192 days after departure from Ceylon
  Arrival of the ship Blijdorp in the Netherlands
  1042 days after employment
  Resignation Jan van Akkeren (Blijdorp), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

Crew at the Cape: 97.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6351, folio 138

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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