Unless anyone objects, we'd like to make the profile Van de Cuyl-4 the final WikiTree ID for this person. The decision is based partly on the fact that he was the immigrant (from the Netherlands to New Netherland) and partly on an explanation provided by a member of the New Netherland Settlers project:
the Van version appears only in that particular time frame, when people left the town they are from, so then it is Jacob from Cuyl. But we would be wrong to change his ancestors to also be that "from Cuyl" form, because they did not leave.
His descendants dropped the van, so aside from him, this line would be Kool. Please note that this is a separate line from Cool (see the G2G post on that line) and also separate from the German Kuhl.
Please let me know before the 14th if you have conflicting information.
Thanks! Liz