Pleunis Bastiaansz de Wit, on October 17, 1737 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1737
• Thursday, 17 October
  Pleunis Bastiaansz de Wit (uit Woerden) joins as ship gunner with chamber Rotterdam. Departure of the ship Hofvliet bound for Batavia
• 1738
• Wednesday, 5 February
  111 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Hofvliet on the Cape
• Thursday, 27 February
  22 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Hofvliet of the Cape
• Thursday, 12 June
  105 days after departure from the Cape, 238 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Hofvliet in Batavia
• Return
• Sunday, 14 December
  185 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Hofvliet with chamber Amsterdam from Batavia
• 1739
• Saturday, 14 March
  90 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Hofvliet on the Cape
• Wednesday, 1 April
  18 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Hofvliet from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Friday, 3 July
  93 days after departure from the Cape, 201 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Hofvliet in the Netherlands
  624 days after employment
  Resignation Pleunis Bastiaansz de Wit (Hofvliet), reason: repatriated

Beneficiary

• Jacoba van Buijl, vrouw

Remarks

Month certificate: Yes / Debenture: Yes

The 81 men aboard the HOFVLIET included 71 seafarers.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 14186, folio 103

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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