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India in 1725. He became Director of the Dutch factory at Chinsurah, 
His name is found on the rolls of the factory for June, 1732, and June 
1734, but not afterwards. This agrees with the date of death. The 
armorial bearings obviously pun upon the name. 
Besides these three monumental inscriptions at Chinsurah there 
is a large tomb at Chapra with the inscription J.V.H. 26 Junij, A.D. 
1712. 
The letters J.V.H. stand for Jacob van Hoorn. In the Bengal 
Consultations Book for 1712 we find that on July 7th the Council received 
news from Patna of the death of Mr. Van Lome and the seizure of the 
Dutch goods. This agrees with the date on the tomb, which places 
the death in June. But Mr. Irvine writing on the Later Mughals in 
the J.A.S.B. for 1896, p. 183, says that Jacob van Hoorn died at 
Patna in July. If this were so the identification of the letters as 
standing for Jacob van Hoorn, which I have already suggested in my 
English in Bengal , II, 1, 64, could not hold. To settle the point I 
referred to the records in the Hague. After a good deal of search Dr. 
de Huller, the assistant archivist, has found a letter from the Chief and 
Council of Hughli to the Directors-General at Amsterdam, from which 
he has kindly furnished me with the following extract:— 
“The Hon’ble Company will again have to suffer a deplorable loss. 
Two days after the death of the merchant in-chief, van Hoorn, that is 
to say, the 28th June, Priuce Farochsier has seized by force without the 
least reason the Company’s goods and servants at Pattena; the value 
of the goods amounting to more then 220,000 rupees.” From this letter 
it is clear that Jacob van Hoorn did die on June 26, 1712, and I think 
there can now be no further doubt as to the identification of the letters 
J.V.H. 
