Matthijs Meijer, on January 21, 1745 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1745
• Thursday, 21 January
  Matthijs Meijer (uit Amsterdam) joins as junior ordinary seaman with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Weltevreden bound for Ceylon
• Tuesday, 15 June
  145 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Weltevreden on the Cape
• Thursday, 8 July
  23 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Weltevreden of the Cape
• Tuesday, 5 October
  89 days after departure from the Cape, 257 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Weltevreden in Ceylon
• Return
• 1746
• Wednesday, 19 January
  106 days after arrival in Ceylon
  Departure of the ship Weltevreden with chamber Amsterdam from Ceylon
• Thursday, 24 March
  64 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Weltevreden on the Cape
• Tuesday, 19 April
  26 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Weltevreden from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Monday, 15 August
  118 days after departure from the Cape, 208 days after departure from Ceylon
  Arrival of the ship Weltevreden in the Netherlands
  571 days after employment
  Resignation Matthijs Meijer (Weltevreden), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

The 10 passengers were condemned persons.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6178, folio 121

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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