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Tuesday, 9 March 2021

Dutch Greenland commandeur Jan Jansz Trompetter returned home according to the Dutch newspaper Amsterdamse courant dated 4 September 1721

Adolf van der Laan after Sieuwert van der Meulen 1720-1730

An item dated Amsterdam, Netherlands 3 September reported the arrival in the Vlie of the Dutch commandeurs Jan Jansz Trompetter(1) 6,5 whale returning from Greenland.

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1. Jan Trompetter, commandeur between 1715-1725, in 1721 for Bodewijn Pont, Edam, Netherlands 6,5 whale, 230 barrels blubber. 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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