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Tuesday, 26 March 2019

Dutch commandeur in the Greenland whale-fishery Jilles Cornelisz 1723

In the next years I intended to supply more biographical details dealing with this commandeur and his director(s) and the ships he commanded.Sailed for director Teunis van der Os of Zierikzee in 1723 with as results ¼ whale and 20 barrels of whale blubber.

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Gerret van Sante, broker at Zaandam. Alphabetische Naam-Lyst van alle de Groenlandsche en Straat-Davissche Commandeurs, die zedert het jaar 1700 op Groenland, en zedert het jaar 1719 op de Straat Davis, voor Holland en andere Provincien hebben gevaaren. Haarlem, 1770. This book also contains hand written notes for the period 1770-1794.