Jan Willem van der Laan, on May 28, 1777 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1777
• Wednesday, 28 May
  Jan Willem van der Laan (uit Bellingwolda) joins as junior ordinary seaman with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Huis ter Meijen bound for Batavia
• Friday, 19 September
  114 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Huis ter Meijen on the Cape
• Thursday, 9 October
  20 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Huis ter Meijen of the Cape
• 1778
• Tuesday, 6 January
  89 days after departure from the Cape, 223 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Huis ter Meijen in Batavia
• Return
• Sunday, 8 February
  33 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Venus with chamber Amsterdam from Batavia
• 1780
• Wednesday, 12 January
  703 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Venus on the Cape
• Sunday, 12 March
  60 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Venus from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Friday, 30 June
  110 days after departure from the Cape, 873 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Venus in the Netherlands
  1129 days after employment
  Resignation Jan Willem van der Laan (Venus), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: No

The VENUS ran ashore at Rio Delagoa; not earlier than 27-11-1779 it was able to continue the return voyage via the Cape to Texel. After the return in patria the VENUS was sold to Prussia, and its name was altered into OOSTEREEM, and subsequently the ship

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6658, folio 85

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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