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- Names: Stefanus
- Surname: Buijk
- City of Origin: Amsterdam
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- Date Employed: 1780-12-19
- Occupation: Junior ordinary seaman
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- (Dutch: jongmatroos)
- Date Terminated: 1782-05-19
- Place Terminated: Asia
- Reason Terminated: Penalised or punished
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- Often involved having to work for the company while earnings were confiscated with a declaration of the pay forfeited. Death penalty is noted under Remarks. Often persons would be punished by repatriation to Holland without pay. ‘Repatriated’ would then b
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The United East India Company (Dutch: Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the VOC) was a chartered company established on 20 March 1602 by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies into the first joint-stock company in the world, granting it a 21-year monopoly to carry out trade activities in Asia.
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