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Friday, 23 October 2020

Catch results of German Greenland seal hunters according to the Dutch newspaper Amsterdamse courant dated 10 July 1762

An item dated Hamburg, Germany 6 July reported the arrival the same day of comamndeur Kartsen And. Wit with 103 quardelen seal blubber leaving with other ships Greenland on 24 June. He brought with him a list of catch results of other seal hunters: of Hamburg Jasper Karstens 17, Cornelis Karstens 60, Michiel Hansen 150, Rasmus Lassen 50, H.M. Jasper 60, Theunis Pieters 103, P. Michels 150, Hans H. Tönnies 130, H. Pieters 90, Cornelis Thomson 90, Michiel Hansen 70, Hans Erichs 40, Peter Ehlers 70, Johan N. Steinmetz 50, Peter Swen 60, Thomas Swen 80, Christiaan Hasselman 60, Andreas Swen 100, Jurgen Swen 60 and Peter Theunis 90 quardelen-of Gluckstadt Jan Schröder and Michiel Kröger 90 quardelen.

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