Jan van Gelder, on December 31, 1740 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1740
• Saturday, December 31
  Jan van Gelder (uit Uijtregt) joins as soldier with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Jonge Willem bound for Batavia
• 1741
• Sunday, May 14
  134 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Jonge Willem on the Cape
• Wednesday, June 14
  31 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Jonge Willem of the Cape
• Sunday, August 20
  67 days after departure from the Cape, 232 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Jonge Willem in Batavia
• Return
• 1742
• Thursday, December 20
  487 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Tolsduin with chamber Delft from Batavia
• 1743
• Sunday, March 17
  87 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Tolsduin on the Cape
• Thursday, March 21
  4 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Tolsduin from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Saturday, July 20
  121 days after departure from the Cape, 212 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Tolsduin in the Netherlands
  931 days after employment
  Resignation Jan van Gelder (Tolsduin), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

Pieter Jellesz. was schout-by-nacht of the return fleet. The 117 men aboard the TOLSDUIN included 90 seafarers.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 12981, folio 156

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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