Person

Jurriaen Aernoutsz

Dutch colonial navy captain

b. 1635 CE – d. 1695 CE World The Atlantic Lands

Jurriaen Aernoutsz (or Aernouts) is a Dutch colonial navy captain, who briefly conquers the capital of Acadia, Fort Pentagouet in Penobscot Bay (present day Castine, Maine) and several other villages, and renames the colony New Holland during the Franco-Dutch War.