Wouter Roovers, on January 6, 1760 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1760
• Sunday, 6 January
  Wouter Roovers (uit Delft) joins as quartermaster with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Barbara Theodora bound for Batavia
• Friday, 28 March
  82 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Barbara Theodora on the Cape
• Tuesday, 15 April
  18 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Barbara Theodora of the Cape
• Sunday, 29 June
  75 days after departure from the Cape, 175 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Barbara Theodora in Batavia
• Return
• Friday, 10 October
  103 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Noord nieuwland with chamber Rotterdam from Batavia
• 1761
• Wednesday, 14 January
  96 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Noord nieuwland on the Cape
• Tuesday, 3 March
  48 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Noord nieuwland from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Sunday, 14 June
  103 days after departure from the Cape, 247 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Noord nieuwland in the Netherlands
  525 days after employment
  Resignation Wouter Roovers (Noord nieuwland), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

The 1 1 passengers included five slaves and one condemned person. Commandeur of the return fleet was Koraelis de Jonge, master of the RADERMACHER (see 7587).

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 13108, folio 22

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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