VOC records (muster rolls, ledgers, accounts)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	company records or reports
Producer	Dutch East India Company
Coverage	1633-1795
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	2

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
De Zwart (2012)	VOC Received letters and documents from the Cape of Good Hope (VOC 3988-4355): expense bills and trade books	1653-1795	Seventeenth-century price series for the subsistence basket.
De Zwart (2012)	VOC Scheepssoldijboeken (ship's pay-ledgers), VOC 5269-5270	1633-1795	Eighteenth-century prices for basket goods from expenses of resupplying ships at the Cape.
De Zwart (2012)	VOC muster rolls (Cape establishment, 1657, 1658 and five rolls 1699-1790), Dutch National Archives	1657-1790	Gives fixed monthly wages of Company employees, the baseline for Dutch-period wages.
De Zwart (2012)	VOC rendementen for the Cape, 1747-1775	1747-1775	Additional eighteenth-century price data from profits on sales of goods.
Theal (1905)	Dutch East India Company records and accounts furnished to directors	1650s-1795	Underpins accounts of the cost of the 1672 land purchase, the Company's administration, perquisites and finances; the author says the records are now open to inspection.