Joost Godefroij, on October 26, 1740 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1740
• Wednesday, 26 October
  Joost Godefroij (uit Middelburg) joins as first cooper with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Woitkensdorp bound for Batavia
• 1741
• Wednesday, 8 February
  105 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Woitkensdorp on the Cape
• Tuesday, 28 February
  20 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Woitkensdorp of the Cape
• Thursday, 29 June
  121 days after departure from the Cape, 246 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Woitkensdorp in Batavia
• Return
• 1744
• Saturday, 10 October
  1199 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Popkensburg with chamber Amsterdam from Batavia
• 1745
• Friday, 1 January
  83 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Popkensburg on the Cape
• Friday, 16 April
  105 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Popkensburg from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Tuesday, 24 August
  130 days after departure from the Cape, 318 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Popkensburg in the Netherlands
  1763 days after employment
  Resignation Joost Godefroij (Popkensburg), reason: repatriated

Beneficiary

• Cornelia Waes, vrouw

Remarks

Month certificate: Yes / Debenture: Yes

Pieter Zwanendrecht was commandeur of the return fleet. From 30-12-1744 till 01-01-1745 the POPKENSBURG was at anchor off Robben Island.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 12985, folio 33

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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