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Tuesday, 1 December 2020

Arrival of the Dutch Greenland whaler Groenlandia in the Vlie, Texel on 29 July according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 5 August 1758

Texel, 31 July. Arrival on 29 July of the Dutch whaler Groenlandia, commandeur Michiel Ockers Hogerzeyl, 2 whales, 75 quardelen coming from Greenland.(1)  

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1. Commandeur between 1729-1759, in 1758 for the heirs Abraham van Breda, Amsterdam, Netherlands also 104 quarden 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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