Adam Smit, on April 1, 1780 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1780
• Saturday, 1 April
  Adam Smit (uit Straalsont) joins as boatswain’s mate (schiemansmaat) with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Bovenkerker Polder bound for Bengalen
• Saturday, 8 July
  98 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Bovenkerker Polder on the Cape
• Tuesday, 1 August
  24 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Bovenkerker Polder of the Cape
• Thursday, 16 November
  107 days after departure from the Cape, 229 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Bovenkerker Polder in Bengalen
• Return
• 1784
• Thursday, 28 October
  1442 days after arrival in Bengalen
  Departure of the ship Merenberg with chamber Enkhuizen from Bengalen
• 1785
• Sunday, 30 January
  94 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Merenberg on the Cape
• Sunday, 10 April
  70 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Merenberg from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Sunday, 17 July
  98 days after departure from the Cape, 262 days after departure from Bengalen
  Arrival of the ship Merenberg in the Netherlands
  1933 days after employment
  Resignation Adam Smit (Merenberg), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

Sailing from the Cape to patria the MERENBERG, the LOO (8121), the ROZENBURG (8122), the ONZEKERE (8130), the GOUVERNEUR-GENERAAL DE CLERCK (8133), the DRAAK (8134), and the JACHTRUST (8142) were escorted by a Dutch man of war.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6690, folio 562

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.

Permalink https://hdl.handle.net/10648/d7296a34-c864-11e6-9d8b-00505693001d