Samuel Wanson, on May 22, 1741 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1741
• Monday, 22 May
  Samuel Wanson (uit Oudvlissingen) joins as third helmsman (derdewaak) with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Huis te Rensburg bound for Ceylon
• Saturday, 4 November
  166 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Huis te Rensburg on the Cape
• Sunday, 3 December
  29 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Huis te Rensburg of the Cape
• 1742
• Wednesday, 18 April
  136 days after departure from the Cape, 331 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Huis te Rensburg in Ceylon
• Return
• 1745
• Friday, 15 January
  1003 days after arrival in Ceylon
  Departure of the ship Kerkwijk with chamber Amsterdam from Ceylon
• Friday, 2 April
  77 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Kerkwijk on the Cape
• Friday, 16 April
  14 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Kerkwijk from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Thursday, 26 August
  132 days after departure from the Cape, 223 days after departure from Ceylon
  Arrival of the ship Kerkwijk in the Netherlands
  1557 days after employment
  Resignation Samuel Wanson (Kerkwijk), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

The 110 men aboard the KERKWIJK included 5 impotenten. The KERKWIJK was to make two other voyages; during its fifth voyage 'the ship was called HUIS TE RENSBURG (see 3373/7283), during the last voyage (3424) its name was DUIN-ENBURG.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 12986, folio 9

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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