Jan Smit, on July 8, 1736 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1736
• Sunday, 8 July
  Jan Smit (uit Vlissingen) joins as sailor with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Nieuwerkerk bound for Batavia
• Sunday, 23 December
  168 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Nieuwerkerk on the Cape
• 1737
• Tuesday, 8 January
  16 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Nieuwerkerk of the Cape
• Monday, 15 April
  97 days after departure from the Cape, 281 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Nieuwerkerk in Batavia
• Return
• 1738
• Tuesday, 11 February
  302 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Adrichem with chamber Amsterdam from Batavia
• Tuesday, 29 April
  77 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Adrichem on the Cape
• Tuesday, 3 June
  35 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Adrichem from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Friday, 12 September
  101 days after departure from the Cape, 213 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Adrichem in the Netherlands
  796 days after employment
  Resignation Jan Smit (Adrichem), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

The 1 18 men aboard the ADRICHEM included 93 seafarers and 7 impotenten. On 03-06-1738 the ship departed from Robben Island.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 12944, folio 81

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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