Leendert van Spijk, on November 27, 1743 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1743
• Wednesday, 27 November
  Leendert van Spijk (uit Rotterdam) joins as ship’s boy with chamber Rotterdam. Departure of the ship Standvastigheid bound for Batavia
• 1744
• Tuesday, 17 March
  111 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Standvastigheid on the Cape
• Monday, 6 April
  20 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Standvastigheid of the Cape
• Monday, 22 June
  77 days after departure from the Cape, 208 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Standvastigheid in Batavia
• Return
• 1745
• Friday, 15 January
  207 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Kerkwijk with chamber Amsterdam from Batavia
• Friday, 2 April
  77 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Kerkwijk on the Cape
• Friday, 16 April
  14 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Kerkwijk from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Thursday, 26 August
  132 days after departure from the Cape, 223 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Kerkwijk in the Netherlands
  638 days after employment
  Resignation Leendert van Spijk (Kerkwijk), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: No

The 110 men aboard the KERKWIJK included 5 impotenten. The KERKWIJK was to make two other voyages; during its fifth voyage 'the ship was called HUIS TE RENSBURG (see 3373/7283), during the last voyage (3424) its name was DUIN-ENBURG.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 14198, folio 101

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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