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Thursday, 27 May 2021

Dutch Greenland commandeur Michiel Ockes. Hogerzeyl returned home according to the Dutch newspaper Oprechte Haerlemsche courant dated 12 September 1737

An item dated Amsterdam, Netherlands 11 September reported the arrival at Texel, Netherlands of M.O. Hogerzeyl (1) with 7 whales 300 quardelen blubber, returning from Greenland.(1)

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1. Michiel Ockers. Hogerzeyl, commandeur between 1729-1759, in 1737 for Kryn van Holst, Krimpen, Netherlands. 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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