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This is my family line but I can't seem to get past
Yelles CASSEL from Kriesheim and Worms Germany, I seem to get suck there!
Amy Cassel
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Info on Yelles CASSEL
Added by Livelifelovefreedom on 5 Jun 2008
Yelles CASSEL was born in 1590 in Germany. He died in 1681 in Germany.7 Yelles and family
lived in hiding most of their lives moving from town to town. But Yelles's main
residence was Kriesheim and Worms Germany which are about six miles apart. Yelles was a
Mennonite minister, a poet of some note, and a farmer. Yelles may have been born in France
as a French Hugenot and fled to Germany under persecution.
William Penn, who was latter to be known as the founder of Penn's woods, or
Pennsylvania, came to speak in 1681 at a meeting in the city of Kassel at Frankford when
he was only 37 years old. He then went to Kresheim for a meeting. That preaching was
forbidden by the authorities so it had to be held in secret. Yelles Kassel (Cassel) and
members of his family traveled from Worm, Germany, by wagon to attend the meeting. Penn
spoke of the need for religious freedom. Yelles and other Kassels present, members of the
newly emerging Mennonite church, were so impressed with Penn's ideas, that they
invited Penn to their home. Penn told them about free land that was available in the new
world. Two sons of Yelles Kassel (Julius Cassel , 1590-1681) were the first Cassels to
come to America under the terms of a promise by William Penn. They were Johannes (John)
Cassel (1639-1691), with his wife, Mary, and Arnold Cassel (1642-1687). They came on the
ship Jeffries and it took seven months t!
o make the journey. Shortly after Johannes arrived in Germantown, he learned that a large
legacy was left his family, through the death of a relative, amounting to nearly one
million dollars. It was necessary for them to return to Germany to claim the legacy. A
church council was called to discuss the matter. It was decided unanimously to not receive
the money as it would have a tendency to make them proud. Johannes signed the original
charter of Germantown, Pennsylvania where he lived the rest of his life.
Children were: Julius CASSEL, Elizabeth CASSEL, Johannas CASSEL, Arnold CASSEL, Heinrich
CASSEL.
* Yelles Kasel (1590 - 1681)
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