An announcement reported that on Thursday 16 October 1766 at 12.00 o’clock in the tavern Wynkoopers Huis in Middelburg at the south side of the Dam the public sale was intended of the extra ordinary strong well sailing frigate ship Jan en Daniël with rigging and so on captain Pieter Willemsen Backer. Dimensions 77’ (prow) x 22’ x 10’ en between decks 4’. Recently returned and now lying in the new dock in Middelburg. Could be visited three days before the auction. For more details could be asked at Quirinus Jacobus Coenraads, Lange Gortstraat, Middelburg.
