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Wednesday, 19 May 2021

Dutch Greenland commandeur Job van Royen returned home according to the Dutch newspaper Leydse courant dated 11 August 1723

An item dated Amsterdam, Netherlands 9 August reported the arrival in the Maas from Greenland of the Dutch commandeurs Job van Royen 0,5 whale.(1)

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1. Job Jansz. Van Rooyen, commandeur between 1702-1725, in 1723 for widow Hendrik Brakel en Zoon, Rotterdam, Netherlands 0,.5 whale 30 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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