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===Individuals===
An example of a Dutchman who ended up in Bengal was Johan Jacob Hoff . A Dutch book states he had joined the VOC in 1788. He went from Holland to the Dutch East Indies for the Chamber of Enkhuizen with the vessel Maria Carolina. Having arrived at Batavia, Hoff was sent to Malacca where he served as a “second chirurgeon.” In 1795 he was taken prisoner by the English in Malacca at Pera; together with the garrison stationed there, he was sent to Bengal. <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=agJXAAAAMAAJ&q=Hoff+inauthor:Pieter+inauthor:Van+inauthor:der+inauthor:Kemp&dq=Hoff+inauthor:Pieter+inauthor:Van+inauthor:der+inauthor:Kemp&hl=en&ei=A-AvTbRAi71xh9SI8wc&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAQ ''Het Nederlandsch-Indisch bestuur in het midden van 1817, naar oorspronkelijke stukken''] by Pieter Hendrik van der Kemp 1915 Google Books (snippet view); pages 216 and 217, translated by Leo Janssen. The book by Van der Kemp deals with the period of 1817 and the complications with respect to the cession of the former Dutch possessions in Bengal according to the Treaty of London of 1814. Details provided by Mary McPherson (<nowiki>marymac129@btinternet.com</nowiki>) who is researching a man named Johann Jacob Hoff, possibly the man mentioned in the book. The book is available at the [[British Library]] together with many other books by the author including ''De administratie der geldmiddelen van Neerl.-Indië. (Alphabetisch Register, etc.)''.</ref>
== Church Records ==
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mars1940/sets/72157622742474621/ Photographs taken in Dutch Cemeteries in India] flickr.com
== Records at the National Archives of the Netherlands==Refer [[Dutch#External links|External links below]].
== Associations ==
*[http://vocopvarenden.nationaalarchief.nl/?lang=en VOC-Sea Voyagers] from the Nationaal Archief (National Archives of the Netherlands) contains a searchable database which is a comprehensive index of ships’ pay-ledgers. The ship's pay-ledgers form the basis of the personnel-administration of the 'VOC' or Dutch East India Company. For each departing ship all employees sailing with her were registered, amounting to some 655.000 persons over the period 1700-1794.
**This [http://vocopvarenden.nationaalarchief.nl/Inleiding.aspx?p=2 page] describes the four categories of sea-voyagers and states that the soldiers were mainly from [[German|Germany]]
*[http://en.nationaalarchief.nl Nationaal Archief {National Archives of the Netherlands)] with the associated website [http://www.gahetna.nl/en gahetna] which presents the collection of records at the Nationaal Archief.
**[http://www.gahetna.nl/en/contactformulier Contact page]
**[http://www.gahetna.nl/en/q-and-a/ask-a-question/commissioned-research Commissioned research]
*India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2013-03/1364206453 25 March 2013 post] about the Dutch website <nowiki>https://www.wiewaswie.nl</nowiki> and [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2013-03/1364308720 26 March 2013 post] about the Dutch National Archives
*[https://www.openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/12087 ''Fort Cochin in Kerala 1750-1830 : the social condition of a Dutch community in an Indian milieu'' ] by Anjana Singh June 2007 Leiden University [Digital] Repository
*A [http://www.weeklyvoice.com/headlines/napoleons-soldiers-in-maharaja-ranjit-singhs-army review] of the book ''The Lion’s Firanghis: Europeans at the Court of Lahore'' by Bobby Singh Bansal 2010 "By the 1830s a multifarious array of [[French]], [[German|Prussian]], Spanish, Dutch and Italian officers had descended on the Anglo-Punjab frontier, hoping to enlist in the services of the opportunistic Maharajah…" Available through Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/0956127010 FIBIS Shop]
