Arend Bessenhorst, on June 29, 1740 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1740
• Wednesday, 29 June
  Arend Bessenhorst (uit Gemel) joins as sailor with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Huis te Foreest bound for Batavia
• 1741
• Monday, 2 January
  187 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Huis te Foreest on the Cape
• Thursday, 19 January
  17 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Huis te Foreest of the Cape
• Tuesday, 25 April
  96 days after departure from the Cape, 300 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Huis te Foreest in Batavia
• Return
• Tuesday, 19 December
  238 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Strijen with chamber Delft from Batavia
• 1742
• Sunday, 15 April
  117 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Strijen on the Cape
• Friday, 11 May
  26 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Strijen from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Saturday, 15 September
  127 days after departure from the Cape, 270 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Strijen in the Netherlands
  808 days after employment
  Resignation Arend Bessenhorst (Strijen), reason: repatriated

Beneficiary

• Maria Cempers, moeder

Remarks

Month certificate: Yes / Debenture: Yes

2 Jan van Heemstede-was schout-bij-nacht of the return fleet. The 90 men aboard the STRIJEN included 14 impotenten.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6108, folio 87

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 1194641.

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