Melt van Leeuwen, on October 2, 1759 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1759
• Tuesday, 2 October
  Melt van Leeuwen (uit Rotterdam) joins as sailor with chamber Rotterdam. Departure of the ship Noord Nieuwland bound for Batavia
• 1760
• Tuesday, 22 January
  112 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Noord Nieuwland on the Cape
• Tuesday, 5 February
  14 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Noord Nieuwland of the Cape
• Saturday, 17 May
  102 days after departure from the Cape, 228 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Noord Nieuwland in Batavia
• Return
• Friday, 10 October
  146 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
  621 days after employment
  Resignation Melt van Leeuwen (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 14233, folio 146

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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