[1] In 1615, Theodore Claessen founded a Dutch colony at Cayenne, but it seems to have perished quickly.

[2] Another expedition to found a settlement at Cayenne left Flushing in 1626, under the captaincy of Claude Prevost.

de Vries, a group of about thirty colonists restored an abandoned French fort on Mecoria island on the Cayenne River and tried to cultivate the land.

Jan Claessen Langendyck's request to colonize the area again was approved by the Dutch West India Company, and he had set up a colony by 1659.

Later the same year, the French recaptured their colony under the command of Jean II d'Estrées.