Gerrit Scheffer, on December 30, 1754 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1754
• Monday, 30 December
  Gerrit Scheffer (uit Amsterdam) joins as ship’s boy (jongen) with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Scholtenburg bound for Bengalen
• 1755
• Saturday, 29 March
  89 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Scholtenburg on the Cape
• Tuesday, 29 April
  31 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Scholtenburg of the Cape
• Sunday, 17 August
  110 days after departure from the Cape, 230 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Scholtenburg in Bengalen
• Return
• 1761
• Monday, 2 November
  2269 days after arrival in Bengalen
  Departure of the ship Lekkerland with chamber Amsterdam from Bengalen
• Sunday, 27 December
  55 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Lekkerland on the Cape
• 1762
• Monday, 1 February
  36 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Lekkerland from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Wednesday, 2 June
  121 days after departure from the Cape, 212 days after departure from Bengalen
  Arrival of the ship Lekkerland in the Netherlands
  2711 days after employment
  Resignation Gerrit Scheffer (Lekkerland), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: No

Roelof Blok, admiraal of the return fleet, was aboard the LEKKERLAND. Crew at the Cape: 133. /7611 was the second voyage of this ship, which during its preceding voyage was called MARIENBOS (3605/7508).

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6316, folio 171

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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