Jacob Box, on October 19, 1755 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1755
• Sunday, 19 October
  Jacob Box (uit 's hage) joins as third helmsman (derdewaak) with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Vlissingen bound for Batavia
• 1756
• Thursday, 11 March
  144 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Vlissingen on the Cape
• Monday, 19 April
  39 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Vlissingen of the Cape
• Saturday, 26 June
  68 days after departure from the Cape, 251 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Vlissingen in Batavia
• Return
• Monday, 18 October
  114 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Vredestein with chamber Rotterdam from Batavia
• Friday, 31 December
  74 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Vredestein on the Cape
• 1757
• Sunday, 27 February
  58 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Vredestein from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Wednesday, 29 June
  122 days after departure from the Cape, 254 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Vredestein in the Netherlands
  619 days after employment
  Resignation Jacob Box (Vredestein), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: No

Commandeur of the return fleet was Otto Freudenfeld, master of the LEIDEN (see 7481).

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 13079, folio 5

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.

This data was last updated on April 7, 2014 by the source holder and first published on Open Archives on July 3, 2014. Originele record identifier is 944337.

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