Jeroen Aldertszoon Vlieland.

                                         

In 1787 Jeroen Vlieland sailed his Topsham Post from Rotterdam to Topsham.
And he did this many times after that, at least once a week .
He took some passengers and mail.
He announced in the newspapers when he should sail .So people could bring the mail they had to him in the harbour..
When he sailed out , it was announced in the newspapers and when he was arriving as well .
In 1803 we find the last advertisement of him sailing to Topsham and in 1811 the ship l´esperance  last sailed by Jeroen Vlieland is sold in Rotterdam .
All those years Jeroen Vlieland is not found in the newspapers or in archives.
Did he live in England or in Rotterdam ? Was he a prisoner of war ? When and where did he die ?
Was he Yarhan the father of John Vlieland ?.

To avoid being captured the fishermen went in to mailservice.
The mail was important and should be intact on arrival.
So the ship and crew were regarded as neutral and were not captured.
Jeroen Vlieland had a mailservice Rotterdam -Topsham and advertised both in England and in Holland with his mailservice.

Caledonian Mercury - Monday 08 February 1802

Thursday 7-1-1802 Morning Post.
The letters on ships were important and always saved.
When a ship was captured the mail was always kept and is still kept in the national archives.
It was a way of gathering information.

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we find him as well
In a Rotterdam newspaper in 1803 we find Jeroen Vlieland with his ship the Topsham Post sailing from Topsham to Rotterdam.

insurance by LLoyds of London source google books.

In ">LLoyds

It says
Nicholaus Montauban van Swijndrecht,Willem van Dam and sons and  Hubertus Montauban Van Swijndrecht brokers in Rotterdam will sell on Tuesday 7 September 1811 in the afternoon at 4 o´clock sharp in tavern The Swineshead in public an extra well sailed bomship named Lésperance last sailed by Jeroen Vlieland Length from prow 41 feet,width between the bolts 19 feet hollow in the holt under the deck 6 foot and 8 thumbs all in Amsterdam foot with all his spars standing sails ,anchors ropes and other shipstools  like it is as the moment on the westside ,next to the newstreet more information at the brokers named above.
A bomship ( comes frome bottomship ) is a special type of vessel .
It had a flat bottom and was dragged to the shore so it did not need a harbour to land.

a photo of a page from a wharfinger's journal from the port of Exeter, (Reference Devon Record Office a1/4) which shows the cargo of cloth on the Post van Topsham on its sailing for Rotterdam on 8 February 1791.
It shows the number of bales of cloth loaded aboard for that voyage, by each of the following merchants:
Weres & Co is the same as Thomas Fox of Wellington
James Pulling, Smales & Dennys, Benjamin Dickinson, John Besly, Messrs Dunsfords and George & William Lewis are all from Tiverton
Baring & Co are from Exeter.

Thanks to Peter Maunder for this great information.


Some transcripts used for insurance purposes of de jonge  Maria

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