Jan van Niekerk, on January 3, 1736 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1736
• Tuesday, 3 January
  Jan van Niekerk (uit Utrecht) joins as steward with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Meijenburg bound for Batavia
• Monday, 25 June
  174 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Meijenburg on the Cape
• Wednesday, 8 August
  44 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Meijenburg of the Cape
• Wednesday, 3 October
  56 days after departure from the Cape, 274 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Meijenburg in Batavia
• Return
• Monday, 31 December
  89 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Coxhoorn with chamber Zeeland from Batavia
• 1737
• Monday, 1 April
  91 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Coxhoorn on the Cape
• Monday, 22 April
  21 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Coxhoorn from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Thursday, 5 September
  136 days after departure from the Cape, 248 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Coxhoorn in the Netherlands
  611 days after employment
  Resignation Jan van Niekerk (Coxhoorn), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: No

Commandeur of the return fleet was Herman de Vrij (6986).

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 12935, folio 14

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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