Pieter Smits, on December 30, 1757 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1757
• Friday, 30 December
  Pieter Smits (uit Antwerpen) joins as soldier with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Giessenburg bound for Ceylon
• 1758
• Saturday, 13 May
  134 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Giessenburg on the Cape
• Wednesday, 24 May
  11 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Giessenburg of the Cape
• Wednesday, 16 August
  84 days after departure from the Cape, 229 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Giessenburg in Ceylon
• Return
• 1760
• Monday, 17 November
  824 days after arrival in Ceylon
  Departure of the ship Walcheren with chamber Zeeland from Ceylon
• 1761
• Monday, 26 January
  70 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Walcheren on the Cape
• Monday, 30 March
  63 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Walcheren from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Monday, 13 July
  105 days after departure from the Cape, 238 days after departure from Ceylon
  Arrival of the ship Walcheren in the Netherlands
  1291 days after employment
  Resignation Pieter Smits (Walcheren), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

Crew at the Cape: 127.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6351, folio 216

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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