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I think Jane's question as to the Jacobse name very interesting. Our Bantas could be "Conversos" (Jews converting to Christianity/Catholicism.
Below is information about Crypto-Jews written by author Abraham D. Lavender, Ph.D. Department of Sociology and Anthropology Florida International University, Miami
There were times when it was safer to be a crypto-Jew overtly practicing Catholicism than to be a Huguenot, but in the earlier years (up to about 1572) it was safer to be a crypto-Jew overtly practicing Protestantism than to be an overt Jew... Others, of course, are hesitant to believe in or acknowledge Jewish ancestry because of their strong and prominent membership in the Christian culture ... In the United States, and more so in some specific areas such as Charleston, South Carolina, the Huguenots intermarried with prominent other Protestant families and became full members of the Christian (mostly Protestant) aristocracy. As in other areas of crypto-Judaic studies,research in this area is hindered because of reluctance of some descendants to acknowledge either overt or covert Jewish ancestry."
So Jane's question, what religion were the "Bantas"? Our ancestors of "Jacob" could have come from Spain or Portugal. The Netherlands was a safe place for Jews who were banished from Spain in 1492. Add this to the persecution that Jews received in New York and it makes one wonder if the "House of Jacob" decided to be the farm "Te Bonta" instead.
Here is an example of Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam business records from August, 1620 taken from the website http://www.jewishgen.org/Danzig/amsterdam.php#index
No. 2179 (1620, August 24, Not. Arch. 628, p. 75-77; Not. Sibrant Cornelisz.)Freight contract between Francisco de Pas, Portuguese merchant in Amsterdam,acting for Gabriel Lopes, merchant in Hamburg, and skipper Cornelis Jacobsz.
from Huisduinen, for a journey with the ship Brandaris, large 150 lasts,from Amsterdam to Danzig and from there with a cargo of rye and 10 to 12 lasts of wheat to Porto or Lisbon, at a freight of 7 crusados a last for Lisbon and 7½ crusados a last for Porto.
Cornelis Jacobsz may not be our relative and Sibrant Cornelisz may not be the same family that Sil Cornelisda belonged to but it is not far-fetched to think their names were Jewish.
Jewish Immigrants to New York were also persecuted:
Governor Stuyvesant wrote the directors of the Dutch West India Company asking for authority to expel the Jews.
Stuyvesant continued hostile and determined to drive the Jews from the colony.
http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Worship/Jew.History.html
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