Re: CASSELL: Elizabeth m. Johannes Kuster(s)
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Re: CASSELL: Elizabeth m. Johannes Kuster(s)
Mary Case 4/04/99
Here are three items which I recently uncovered concerning Johannes Kassel.
1. The book "Emigrants to Pennsylvania. p 7, states that The "JEFFRIES', Thomas Arnold,m (master) arrived 20th-1 Month (January) 1686
Johannes Cassel a German his children Arnold, Peter, Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah. From London.
2. In "Passenger to America" p 56 it states
26. REBECCA ATKINSON b. 6.16, 1787, d. before 1788 Mar. 5 Mo 1756, Israel Cassell*
*Footnotes states Israel was the son of Arnold and Lydia (Fordahm) Cassell:Lydia being daughter of Benjamin Fordham of Annapolis Md. Arnold Cassell was son of Arnold and Susanna (de la Plaine) Cassell, and grandson of Johannes Cassell, one of the leading men in early Germantown, and one of the councilmen (called "committeemen") named in the borough charter, May 31, 1691. His son Arnold married 9 mo 1698, Susanna de la Plaine, of a noble Hugenot family settled in New York, whose mother was Susanna Cresson, of a similar family, then of New York, now mostly transplanted into Philadelphia; one of their daughters, Veroncia, married Isaac Warner, son of John, and Grandson of
William Warner of Blockley. "Falls Mo. Mtg. register".
3, From the Minutes of the Provincial Council, printed in Colonial Records, Vol III, P. 290, from "Pennsylvania German Pioneers". The Ship FRIENDSHIP OF BRISTOL, John Davies M (master) from Rotterdam who hereunto set their hands this 16th day of Oct.1727 in presence of Gov and Council.
a list of passengers on List 5B indicating that both Yilles Kassel and Johannes Kassel were passengers.