Elizabeth Kuster Cassell

• Daughter of Johannes Yelles Peter Cassel, III and Margaretta Mary op den Graeff
• Elizabeth Cassell (Johannes Cassell2, Julius Cassell1) was born 1670 in Kriegsheim, Palitinate (Germany), and died 8 Jan 1728 in Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
• January 14th, 1686, sold his land to Dirck Sipman, and had little to do with the emigration; Sipman selected as his attorneys here at various times Hermann Op den Graeff, Hendrick Sellen, and Van Bebber, all of whom were Mennonites; and Jan Streypers was represented also by Sellen, was a cousin of the Op den Graeffs, and was the uncle of Hermannus and Arnold Kuster, two of the most active of the early Pennsylvania members of that sect.
• Elizabeth Kuster Cassell history from The Pound and Kester families : containing an account of the ancestry of John Pound, page 304.

Married

• Married: Johannes Custer on October 31 1692 in Abington, Pennsylvania USA, son of Paulus Kuster and Gertrude Doors. He was born Dec 1670 in Crefield, Rheinland (Germany), was christened Dec 1670 in Evangelical Reformed Church, Kaldenkirchen, Rheinland, Preussen (Germany), and died Aug 1740 in Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Marriage Date: 31 Oct 1692. Marriage Place:Montgomery, Pennsylvania, Residence Date: on Image 31 Eighth 1692, Residence Place: Montgomery, Pennsylvania. Spouse: John Custer, Event Type: Marriage Intention Monthly Meeting, Abington Monthly Meeting Historical Meeting Data: Abington Monthly Meeting Yearly Meeting,Philadelphia Yearly Meeting,Meeting State, Pennsylvania, Meeting CountyMontgomery Household Members, Name: John Custer & Elizabeth Castle
• White's book: Pages 26-27; It has "married the 8th month and 31st day, 1692", which in that year, the 8th month is October, in the old style of dating. (Not August, as is current new style dating). It also cites source as Hunt's book, page 592, which is the account written by William Ferguson Kester. Other page in Hunt book, is 303, which has Abington Monthly Meeting records as source. The Abington Monthly Meeting of Friends source, has date as 8th month, 31st day, 1692.

Children of Elizabeth Cassell and Johannes Custer are:

• John Kuster; Birth: June 09, 1693 in Bristol, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, married Elizabeth Hood. 8 mo 25 1717 Philadelphia MM d Feb or Mar 1760, Philadelphia. She b 1696, dau of Abigail Hood, who later rem Mr. Morton. She died on May 1769, Philadelphia. John Koster a mason and a carpenter. He moved from Germantown to Philadelphia bef 1719. He dealt heavily in real estate.
• Margaret Kuster; Birth: March 13, 1694 Germantown, Phiadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, married Cornelius Dewees. Ken Reed has her a daughter of Paulus and Gertrude. Apparently no proof whose daughter she is. White has her m 1 John Lucken 12/25/1711 at Abington MM. John being son of Johannes/Jan and Maria (Theisen) Lucken, he d around 1737, Philadelphia. White has her married 2 Thomas Rose, 1/27/1738, Abington MM. He was b around 1701 and emigrated from Ireland. Overseer and elder of Germantown MTg and clerk of Abington MM. He d 9/17/1785 age 84 y4s and 3 mos. Mgt. He had no children by either marriage.
• Rynier Kuster; Birth: November 26, 1696 in Germantown, Philadelphia County, Province of Pennsylvania, United States-married Ann Hewitt. lst mo 31 day 1718 Anne d 9/11/1758, Ryner died bef 9/29/1770. Abington MM records White has him d 1770 Philadelphia. His will dated 5th mo 20 1762 names four daughters and no sons (Book O p 2555, Philadelphia Wills) 1720 rcd at Gwynedd mtg,1726 rcd there again, not clear where from. 1729 he went backto Abington MM. 1752, 1754 lived Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia. 1755 it was reported he needed aid from the meeting, had a poor helpless daughter an object of charity. Three sons died young w/in nine months of each other. One daughter married in 1729, to __ Gibbs; three daughters White gives no idea when they were born or what happened to them... hmmm. All four are mentioned in his 1752 will and it wasn't proven until after his death in 1770. White doesn't say why she was an object of charity, either... if she were either mentally ill or non compos mentis, White wouldn't have said! Mary and Mr. Gibbs had just one child; Nathaniel Gibbs.
• Hermanus Custer, Sr; Birth: November 02, 1703 in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, married Anne Large. Abington MM granted him cert to Buckingham MM 6/28/1732. 57/5/1732 he was rcd at Buckingham MM and granted a cert to Chesterfield MM in Burlington Co, NJ! He located at Kingwood, Hunterdon Co, NJ, bef 1733, then(White) m Anne Large in 1733 at Chesterfield MM. (Chesterfield MM Records ) He d aft 5/11/1780 Hunterdon Co, NJ. Sue Davis, smgdavis@aol.com also contr info, has interest in this line. Anne Large was b 3/29/1712. Hermanus raised some of Paul Kester's small children after Paul died betw 1745 - 1750; these were Wm, Rebecca and John Kester. A tax list for Kingwood NJ in May 1778 shows Hermanus having 60 acres, 2 horses, 3 cows, 1 pig. Between 1778 and 1780 the pig bore offspring; by 1780, he had 5 pigs. Samuel Kester b 9/25/1737 Darby MM, Chester, PA or Kingwood, Huntingdon, NJ (White has latter) m Susannah Webster 9/14/1758 Buckingham, Bucks Co, PA d 3/8/1804. Susannah m aaron Hambleton (Judy Douglas' line, jald33@juno.com) She dau of Benj and RAchel Webster and b 10/11/1736 near Plainfield, NJ. Saml taxed in Kingwood, 1778, for 150 acres, three horses, eight cows, and two pits. By 1780 he had added 150 acres unimproved land and had five cows and seven pigs. He d 3/8/1804. Will proved in Hunterdon Co. Susanna d bef 2/24/1832 in Hunterdon Co, NJ
• Paul Kuster; Birth: 1706 in Germantown, Phiadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, married Ruth Kitchen. The family lived in Solebury, Bucks Co, PA. Paul d betw 1745 and 1750 in Bucks Co, PA.
• Peter Kuster; Birth: 1708 in Germantown, Phiadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Links

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• https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bhreed&i...

Biography

Elizabeth Cassell was born about 1672 in Kriegsheim, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany. She was the third of five children born to Johannes Casell at age 33 and possibly Mary Graeff at 29 years old. She arrived in the New World on the ship Jeffries with her father and siblings on March 20, 1686.

The Pound and Kester Families complied by John E Hunt states, “The minutes of the Abington monthly meeting of Friends show that 'Johannes Custer' was married August 31, 1692, to Elizabeth Cassell. She was a daughter of Johannes Cassell or Kassell, a weaver who came to Germantown with his family from Kresheim, Germany, in 1686. The records of the same meeting also show that 'Johannes Kosters' and Elizabeth, his wife, had a son, John, born at Bristol, June 9, 1693, a daughter, Margaret, born at Germantown, August, 13, 1694, and a son, Rynier, born at Germantown May 26, 1696, and the records of births of this meeting from 1697 to 1730 are lost, but it is known they had a son Hermanus, born the November 2, 1703, and a son Paul, born about 1706, and probably a son Peter, the date of whose birth is unknown. This marriage record is extremely hard to read. It is the October 31, 1692, Abington Monthly Meeting Minutes from the U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 collection. The actual marriage is recorded in the Abington Monthly Meeting Minutes, dated 31: 8th m 1692, which states that they “having declared their Intentions of Marriage with each other before two Monthly Meetings . . .” What Hunt didn’t take into account is that in 1692, the 8th month was October, not August. This also affects the months the children were born — John was born in Bristol Township in August; Margaret was born in Germantown in October; Rynier was also born in Germantown, but in July; and ancestor Hermanus in January of 1703/04. Unfortunately, this researchers has not found birth records for the other children. It should be noted that our ancestry follows down from both Hermanus and Paul, as their children married. Some researchers say there were other children — a daughter Christiana, born March 15, 1691/2, before the marriage; Samuel on October 1, 1693; and Jacob born February 1, 1697/98. This researcher has not found any documentation for these children.

Some researchers say Elizabeth Cassell Kester died on January 8, 1728, and is buried in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. But information contained in her son, Hermanus Kester’s October 3, 1732, marriage record makes this death date impossible. On that date he produced his mother's written consent to the marriage

• Source- William Kester's Ancestors - http://jtbullock.com/Tree/WilliamKester.html

Research Notes

White's book: Pages 26-27; It has "married the 8th month and 31st day, 1692", which in that year, the 8th month is October, in the old style of dating. (Not August, as is current new style dating). It also cites source as Hunt's book, page 592, which is the account written by William Ferguson Kester. Other page in Hunt book, is 303, which has Abington Monthly Meeting records as source. The Abington Monthly Meeting of Friends source, has date as 8th month, 31st day, 1692.

"Johannes married Elizabeth Cassell on 31 August 1692 at the Abington Meeting of Friends. Johannes lived in Germantown and in Bristol Township. Johannes Koester and Elizabeth Koester were witnesses to a Marriage Certificate the 2nd month 14th day 1694. Johannes Koster brought suit and recovered from Johannes Pettinger three shillings for an assault which was filed in court, at Germantown, 11th month, 19th day 1694. Johannes made a gift of three pounds to German Friends in need the 10th month, 25th day, 1699. He died sometime during the summer or fall of 1708 since the Philadelphia Administrations, Book B, page 70, shows that 23 October 1708 "Elizabeth Custers", a widow of Germantown, with Arnold Cassell of Philadelphia County, and Thomas and Peter Shoemaker of Germantown as bondsmen on a bond for two hundred pounds, was appointed administratrix of the estate of "Johannes Custers". The inventory, amounting to ninety-five pounds, was dated the 10th month, 11th day, 1708 (the documents pertaining to the administration of the estate and the inventory are now missing from the Philadelphia County records). On 3 August 1709, "Johannes Kosters" son and heir, and "Elizabeth relict" of "Johannes Kusters dededent" of Philadelphia County, conveyed by deed to Daniel Falkner, land in Springfield, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Johannes and Elizabeth had at least six children:" [3]

References

"Castor Association Of America". The association was founded in 1983. An association of genealogy family members in the surname lines of Caster, Castor, Custard, Custer, Gerster, Kaster, Kastor, Keister, Kester, Kiester, Kistard, Kister, Koester, Koster, Kuester, Kuster, Kustard and Kusterd. The Castor Association of America (CAOA) applies part of its efforts to searching for our foreign origins in order to better understand the earlier cultures abroad. This provides a deeper appreciation of the struggles and accomplishments of our ancestors. The Association publishes the results of its findings so that more people may share in its knowledge. CAOA also encourages informal regional and local gatherings of members to meet one another and learn more about their common history and the CAOA.

Sources

• U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935; Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Provo, UT, USA: 2014;
• "Castle" U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s; Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; "Elizabeth Cassell, Germantown, Pennsylvania"; "1686"; Page Number: 41
• White, Jean M., Editor; The Descendants of Paulus and Gertrude Kusters of Kaldenkirchen, Germany and Germantown, Pennsylvania the first four generations; Castor Association of America, 1991; 303 Pages, Indexed; Pages 26-27.
• William Kester's Ancestors - http://jtbullock.com/Tree/WilliamKester.html
• Hunt, John E., Compiled by; "Pound and Kester Families"; Regan Printing House, 1904.; Pages 303-304.
• U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1994; Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Provo, UT, USA; 2014; From the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes, Her father Johannes, a weaver, came from Kriegsheim, Palatinate, High Germany, arrived 20, 12th month, 1686 with five children. (Most likely Arnold, Peter, Elizabeth, Mary and Sarah.) http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=QuakerMeetMins&h=3077....
• U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s; Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; "Elizabeth Cassell, Germantown, Pennsylvania"; "1686"; Page Number: 41
• Elizabeth Cassel in the North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000-http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=ContentPegFam...
• Johannes Kuster in the Bucks County, Pennsylvania Church Records, 1770-1820: Nockamixon Township-http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=bucks003&h=22...
• The Pound and Kester Families The Pound and Kester families : containing an account of the ancestry of John Pound (born in 1735) and William Kester (born in 1733) and a genealogical record of all their descendants and other family historical matterPublished 1904 Compiled by John E Hunt. Found online.Publisher Chicago : Regan printing house Pages 638 Language English Call number 39999066638220 Digitizing sponsor Boston Public Library Book contributor Boston Public Library Collection bostonpubliclibrary; Americana-https://archive.org/stream/poundkesterfamil1904hunt
• Brenda Keck Reed's Kith & Kin of VA, NC, TN, SC & Beyond-http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bhreed&id...
• Author: Russel N. Cassel & Milford H. Cassel, Title: Cassel Family Roots Publication: Name: 1978, Project Innovation, Chula Vista, CA 92010; Note: Source Medium: Book Page: p 15
• Rebecca Kester's Kester Line - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~villandra/OldGeoc...
• Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Men's Minutes, 1682-1746; Collection: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes; Call Number: MR-Ph 4, U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Name: Elizabeth Castle