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Monday, 4 January 2021

Dutch Greenland whaler Wel te Vrede returned according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 1 August 1758

An item reported the arrival at Texel, Netherlands on 26 July of the Dutch whaler Wel te Vrede, commandeur Cornelis de Leeuw with 1 whale 45 quardelen returning from Greenland.  

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1. Cornelis de Leeuw de Jong, commandeur between 1754-1778, in 1758 for Widow Marten Beets en Zoon, De Rijp, Netherlands, also 58 quardelen whale oil. Alphabetische naam-lyst van alle de Groenlandsche en Straat-Davidsche Commandeurs die sedert het jaar 1700 op Groenland en sedert het jaar 1719 op de Straat Davis etc. Gerret van Sant. Published by Johannes Enschede, Amsterdam 1770, with hand written note until 1794.

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