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Jacob Binckes (1637, Koudum – 12 December 1677) was a Dutch commodore. As a captain he was part of the first of two Dutch invasions of England in 1667 in the Raid on the Medway in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
Still a captain he re-captured in 1673 together with captain Cornelis Evertsen de Jongste (Keesje de Duivel/Keesje the Devil) de city of New York and renamed it New Orange. But this Dutch city was in 1674 returned to the English by William III of Orange-Nassau the latter Dutch king of England since 1689 as an agreement of the Treaty of Breda (1667).
Jacob on Wikipedia