Jacob Abramsen Banta

Jacob and his entire family emigrated from Rockland County, NY, to Ameliasburgh, Prince Edward County, Ontario in 1796, evolving to the name Bonter. They settled there among a large group of Dutch, and some Hessian mercenaries from Brunswick and Hanau Province, Germany, imported by the British to fight in the War of Independence. Jacob was a British sympathizer during the war, but too late to claim Loyalist status. Many of the family married UEL. He was a Farmer and a Miller.

Prince Edward County is a peninsula in Lake Ontario, Bay of Quinte.

Jacob Banta, born Bef. February 12,1744 in Schaarlenburgh, Bergen, NJ; died Aft. 1796 in Prince Edward Co., Ont.. He was the son of Abraham C. Banta and Anaetje (Anna) Van Hooren. He married Rachel Smith Abt. 1769 in p. Paramus, NJ.

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Ancestry.com North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016; @R6@

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Book Title: A Frisian Family : The Banta Genealogy : descendants of Epke Jacobse who came from Friesland, Netherlands, to New Amsterdam : February, 1659

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Ancestry.com North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016; @R6@

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Book Title: A Frisian Family : The Banta Genealogy : descendants of Epke Jacobse who came from Friesland, Netherlands, to New Amsterdam : February, 1659