Christoffel Meijer, on September 8, 1776 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1776
• Sunday, 8 September
  Christoffel Meijer (uit Amsterdam) joins as cooper’s mate with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Zeepaard bound for Batavia
• Saturday, 21 December
  104 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Zeepaard on the Cape
• 1777
• Saturday, 18 January
  28 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Zeepaard of the Cape
• Monday, 7 April
  79 days after departure from the Cape, 211 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Zeepaard in Batavia
• Return
• 1780
• Wednesday, 26 January
  1024 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Vrouwe everhardina with chamber Zeeland from Batavia
• Friday, 21 April
  86 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Vrouwe everhardina on the Cape
• Friday, 9 June
  49 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Vrouwe everhardina from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Monday, 2 October
  115 days after departure from the Cape, 250 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Vrouwe everhardina in the Netherlands
  1485 days after employment
  Resignation Christoffel Meijer (Vrouwe everhardina), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

09-06-1780 was the second and final date of departure from the Cape; an earlier attempt to set out had failed.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6640, folio 27

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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