He was the Trading Station director of Dutch East India Company in the Ayutthaya Kingdom between 1633 and 1642,[3] during the reign of King Prasat Thong.
He was the youngest son of Eewout Huybretchszoon and Maritge Cornelisdochter van Vliet[1] He left the Netherlands in a ship named Het Wapen van Rotterdam (The Rotterdam Arms) in May 1628 and arrived to Batavia (present-day Jakarta) in 1629 before being assigned to Japan.
While in the Ayutthaya Kingdom, Van Vliet had a mistress named Osoet Pagua, a Mon woman, with whom they had 3 daughters.
[5] After nine years as Director of the Trading Station in Siam, Jeremias van Vliet was promoted to the second Governor of Dutch Malacca in September 1642.
[1] He returned to the Netherlands in 1647 and lived in his homeland until his death in February 1663, aged 61.