Jan Koster, on June 12, 1753 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1753
• Tuesday, 12 June
  Jan Koster (uit Amsterdam) joins as ship gunner with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Leiden bound for Batavia
• Tuesday, 16 October
  126 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Leiden on the Cape
• Saturday, 3 November
  18 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Leiden of the Cape
• 1754
• Saturday, 19 January
  77 days after departure from the Cape, 221 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Leiden in Batavia
• Return
• 1755
• Thursday, 30 October
  649 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Stadwijk with chamber Amsterdam from Batavia
• Sunday, 28 December
  59 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Stadwijk on the Cape
• 1756
• Wednesday, 3 March
  66 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Stadwijk from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Monday, 26 July
  145 days after departure from the Cape, 270 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Stadwijk in the Netherlands
  1140 days after employment
  Resignation Jan Koster (Stadwijk), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: No

The master of the STADWDK, Willem Vrucht, was comman-deur of the return fleet. The 27 passengers included one female slave and five condemned persons.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 13068, folio 69

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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