Last Edited | 14/03/2019 |
ShipVoyage | On 23 December 1680 the Eiland Mauritius departed Batavia enroute to (Cape Town) where it docked on 30 April 1681. Among those on board were eight politically significant prisoners including Scheon van Bali.3,4 |
Citations
- [S795] Website The Dutch East India Company's shipping between the Netherlands and Asia 1595-1795 (http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/das/search) "Details of voyage 5747.2 from Batavia
Number 5747.2
Name of ship EILAND MAURITIUS
Master Gruit, Huibert Barendsz.
Tonnage 756
Type of ship pinas?
Built 1672
Yard Delft
Chamber Rotterdam
Date of departure 23-12-1680
Place of departure Batavia
Arrival at Cape 04-04-1681
Departure from Cape 30-04-1681
Date of arrival at destination 1681
Place of arrival
Chamber for which cargo is destined Rotterdam (280,454)
Delft (279,375)
Zeeland (41,289)
Particulars The 12 passengers included 8 imprisoned criminals. Aboard the EILAND MAURITIUS was Huibert Barendsz. Gruit, commondear of the return fleet.
Previous outward voyage 1346.2
On Board I II III
Seafarers 112
Soldiers 24
Passengers 12. " - [S654] Mansell Upham 'What can't be cured, must be endured … Cape of Good Hope - first marriages & baptisms (1652-1665)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (http://e-family.co.za/ffy/ui66.htm), January 2012.
- [S795] Website The Dutch East India Company's shipping between the Netherlands and Asia 1595-1795 (http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/das/search) "Details of voyage 5759.5 from Batavia
Number 5759.5
Name of ship VRIJHEID
Master Valk, Jakob
Tonnage 1210
Type of ship
Built 1666
Yard Amsterdam
Chamber Zeeland
Date of departure 20-12-1681
Place of departure Batavia
Arrival at Cape 25-03-1682
Departure from Cape 28-04-1682
Date of arrival at destination ± 30-08-1682
Place of arrival
Chamber for which cargo is destined Zeeland (280,449)
Rotterdam (131,696)
Delft (71,052)
Amsterdam (717)
Particulars
Previous outward voyage 1385.5
On Board I II III
Seafarers 109
Soldiers 32
Impotenten 17
Passengers 12. " - [S432] Robert C-H Shell compiler, Changing Hands, A calendar of bondage in southern Africa, 1550 to 1888, CD-ROM; ISBN 1-86918-063-1; (Cape Town: Ancestry24, September 2007), section on the princes of macassar, citing Letters despatched: Lijst … de … Macasarschen Princen C.501. Hereinafter cited as Changing Hands.