Gerrit Sommers, on January 8, 1705 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

  • Departure
  • 1705
  • Thursday, January 8
    Gerrit Sommers (uit Uijtregt) joins as ship’s boy (jongen) with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Generale Vrede bound for Batavia
  • Tuesday, May 5
    117 days after departure
    Arrival of the ship Generale Vrede on the Cape
  • Friday, May 29
    24 days after arrival at the Cape
    Departure of the ship Generale Vrede of the Cape
  • Sunday, July 26
    58 days after departure from the Cape, 199 days after departure from the Netherlands
    Arrival of the ship Generale Vrede in Batavia
  • 1717
  • Wednesday, February 17
    4423 days after employment
    Resignation Gerrit Sommers (Asia), reason: penalised or punished

Remarks

Month certificate: no / Debenture: yes


Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 5547, 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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