[1] In November 1626, he and Claude Prevost appeared before the Chamber of Zeeland with a proposal to establish a colony in Guyana and requesting the WIC to provide ships and 30 or 40 men.
One of the men, Jan Hendricksz, had reportedly lived in the jungles for so long a time that he found it nearly impossible to speak the Dutch language.
These men claimed to be the surviving members of a Dutch colony previously established in the Amazon by a Captain Oudaen some time before.
One account claims Jan van Ryen left the colony for the West Indies soon after their arrival and, in his absence, the Dutch colonists began fighting with the local Kalina (Caribs).
[5] After the colonists departure, Abraham van Peere obtained permission from the WIC to start a plantation at the nearby the Berbice River.
In December 1630 he registered a colony in "Quaro" with the WIC and on 25 July 1632 the Zeeland Chamber settled with him with respect to payment for his Oyapok expedition.