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Thursday, 11 March 2021

Dutch Greenland commandeur Pieter Gouda returned home according to the Dutch newspaper Leydse courant dated 4 August 1724

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

An item dated Amsterdam, Netherlands 3 August reported the arrival on the Maas arrived Pieter Gouda with 1 whale 30 quardelen returning from Greenland, at the time of his departure left the most of the ships the ice.(1)

Note

1. Commandeur between 1703-1737, in 1724 for weduwe Jacob Beyerman, Rotterdam, Netherlands 1 whale 55 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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