Pieter Verstraate, on October 26, 1740 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1740
• Wednesday, 26 October
  Pieter Verstraate (uit Horst) joins as soldier with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Woitkensdorp bound for Batavia
• 1741
• Wednesday, 8 February
  105 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Woitkensdorp on the Cape
• Tuesday, 28 February
  20 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Woitkensdorp of the Cape
• Thursday, 29 June
  121 days after departure from the Cape, 246 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Woitkensdorp in Batavia
• Return
• Tuesday, 19 December
  173 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Strijen with chamber Delft from Batavia
• 1742
• Sunday, 15 April
  117 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Strijen on the Cape
• Friday, 11 May
  26 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Strijen from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Saturday, 15 September
  127 days after departure from the Cape, 270 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Strijen in the Netherlands
  689 days after employment
  Resignation Pieter Verstraate (Strijen), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

2 Jan van Heemstede-was schout-bij-nacht of the return fleet. The 90 men aboard the STRIJEN included 14 impotenten.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 12985, folio 249

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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