Lourens Berg, on October 2, 1770 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1770
• Tuesday, 2 October
  Lourens Berg (uit Gottenburg) joins as sailor with chamber Rotterdam. Departure of the ship IJsselmonde bound for Batavia
• 1771
• Friday, 1 March
  150 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship IJsselmonde on the Cape
• Sunday, 17 March
  16 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship IJsselmonde of the Cape
• Monday, 10 June
  85 days after departure from the Cape, 251 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship IJsselmonde in Batavia
• Return
• 1772
• Monday, 24 February
  259 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Welgelegen with chamber Hoorn from Batavia
• Thursday, 24 December
  304 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Welgelegen on the Cape
• 1773
• Saturday, 16 January
  23 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Welgelegen from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Thursday, 22 April
  96 days after departure from the Cape, 423 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Welgelegen in the Netherlands
  933 days after employment
  Resignation Lourens Berg (Welgelegen), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

The 7 passengers included 2 condemned persons. Serious damage forced the WELGELEGEN to call at Rio Delagoa. The ship was laid up at Hoom on 09-10-1773.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 14255, folio 78

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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