An item mentioned that shipbrokers sold in ‘t Nieuwezys Heeren Loogement, Amsterdam on 27 November 1780 an extra ordinary set of whaling tools of the deceased commandeur Pieter Willems van Groningen for 3,800 at stroke 4 Dutch guilders to A. Kramp for his master. (1)
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1. Pieter Willemsz van Groningen Davis Strait commandeur for Jan en Christiaan vanTarelink 1774-1780, 1780: 1/5 whale-75 barrels blubber-108 quardelen whale oil. Past away at Amsterdam on 13 November 1780. 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.
Source
De Maandelyksche Nederlandsche Mercurius, November1780.
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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