Gozen Backer, on January 20, 1730 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1730
• Friday, 20 January
  Gozen Backer (uit Huijsen) joins as ship gunner with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Landskroon bound for Ceylon
• Wednesday, 26 April
  96 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Landskroon on the Cape
• Thursday, 18 May
  22 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Landskroon of the Cape
• Friday, 11 August
  85 days after departure from the Cape, 203 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Landskroon in Ceylon
• Return
• 1734
• Saturday, 2 January
  1240 days after arrival in Ceylon
  Departure of the ship Huis te marquette with chamber Amsterdam from Ceylon
• Thursday, 21 October
  292 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Huis te marquette on the Cape
• 1735
• Thursday, 3 March
  133 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Huis te marquette from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Saturday, 25 June
  114 days after departure from the Cape, 539 days after departure from Ceylon
  Arrival of the ship Huis te marquette in the Netherlands
  1982 days after employment
  Resignation Gozen Backer (Huis te Marquette), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

Stayed in Mosselbaai.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 5925, folio 35

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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