Jan Knap, on December 30, 1757 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1757
• Friday, 30 December
  Jan Knap (uit Amsterdam) joins as sailor with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Middelburg bound for Batavia
• 1758
• Sunday, 9 April
  100 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Middelburg on the Cape
• Tuesday, 9 May
  30 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Middelburg of the Cape
• Sunday, 16 July
  68 days after departure from the Cape, 198 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Middelburg in Batavia
• Return
• 1759
• Thursday, 1 November
  473 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Rhoon with chamber Zeeland from Batavia
• 1760
• Saturday, 12 January
  72 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Rhoon on the Cape
• Tuesday, 19 February
  38 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Rhoon from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Friday, 20 June
  122 days after departure from the Cape, 232 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Rhoon in the Netherlands
  903 days after employment
  Resignation Jan Knap (Rhoon), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

The four passengers included one condemned person; he was transported to the Cape to serve his sentence: a fifty years banishment in chains.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 13090, folio 96

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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