Jan van Delmerhorst, on May 23, 1740 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1740
• Monday, 23 May
  Jan van Delmerhorst (uit Arnemuiden) joins as weapons master with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Maria Adriana bound for Batavia
• Thursday, 3 November
  164 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Maria Adriana on the Cape
• Monday, 21 November
  18 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Maria Adriana of the Cape
• 1741
• Friday, 3 March
  102 days after departure from the Cape, 284 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Maria Adriana in Batavia
• Return
• 1745
• Friday, 15 January
  1414 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
  1921 days after employment
  Resignation Jan van Delmerhorst (Kerkwijk), reason: repatriated

Beneficiary

• Johanna Beket, vrouw

Remarks

Month certificate: Yes / Debenture: Yes

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 12982, folio 15

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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