Gerrit Smit, on August 21, 1778 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1778
• Friday, 21 August
  Gerrit Smit (uit Amsterdam) joins as junior ordinary seaman with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Blok bound for Batavia
• Monday, 30 November
  101 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Blok on the Cape
• Monday, 21 December
  21 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Blok of the Cape
• 1779
• Wednesday, 17 February
  58 days after departure from the Cape, 180 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Blok in Batavia
• 1786
• Saturday, 2 September
  2934 days after employment
  Resignation Gerrit Smit (Cape of Good Hope), reason: free citizen

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6666, folio 172

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.