Jan Willem Meijer, on October 4, 1758 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1758
• Wednesday, 4 October
  Jan Willem Meijer (uit Heijdelberg) joins as ship gunner with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Noord-beveland bound for Batavia
• 1759
• Monday, 19 February
  138 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Noord-beveland on the Cape
• Monday, 5 March
  14 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Noord-beveland of the Cape
• Wednesday, 20 June
  107 days after departure from the Cape, 259 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Noord-beveland in Batavia
• Return
• 1762
• Monday, 1 February
  957 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Bosschenhove with chamber Amsterdam from Batavia
• Monday, 17 May
  105 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Bosschenhove on the Cape
• Wednesday, 16 June
  30 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Bosschenhove from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Wednesday, 29 September
  105 days after departure from the Cape, 240 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Bosschenhove in the Netherlands
  1456 days after employment
  Resignation Jan Willem Meijer (Bosschenhove), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

The six passengers included one condemned person. The BOSSCHENHOVE did not call at the Cape but at False Bay.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 13100, folio 52

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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