An item mentioned that shipbrokers sold in ‘t Nieuwezys Heeren Loogement, Amsterdam on 13 November 1780 the extra ordinary set of whaling tools of commandeur Adriaan Groot for 3,200 Dutch guilders to W. Coninck Abraham. (1)
Notes
1. Greenland commandeur between 1769-1792 for Aris de Boer and Cornelis Cardinaal (2), Zaandam, 1780: 8 whales-165 barrels blubber-249 quardelen 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 notes until 1794.
2. Cornelis Cornelisz. Cardinaal (19 October 1741 Westzaandam-2 September 1804 Westzaandam), Aris de Boer was zijn oom, Groot voer op de Cornelis en Netta.
Sources
De Maandelyksche Nederlandsche Mercurius, November1780.
https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-cardinaal/I99.php 1-10-2026 15:16.
People in the 17th and 18th centuries held a different geographical view than people today. This means that when we speak of “Greenland whaling”, “the term “Greenland” actually refers to Svalbard, whereas “Davis Strait” refers to whaling off the coast of present-day Greenland. The Davis Strait is a southern arm of the Arctic Ocean that lies north of the Labrador Sea. It lies between mid-western Greenland and Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada.
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