Hupert Kassel

Hupert Kassel

• Son of Heinrich Kassel and Josephine Kathleen op den Graeff
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48792719/hupert-cassel

Hupert Cassel was born in 1677 in Germany. Hubert Cassel came to Pennsylvania from Palatinate (Pfalz) province in Germany west of the Rhine River in the second immigration of Cassels to America. He arrived in Germantown PA about 1720 and settled in Skippack Township, Montgomery County. His brothers Yelles and Johannes also immigrated to America. Hubert was a man of delicate health, who never possessed much of this worlds goods. His will, in part, read "To my son Abraham I give my two looms with my whole weaving tacle." He was a Mennonite weaver, farmer and minister. Parents: Abraham Cassel.

Children were: Yelles Cassel, Elizabeth Cassel, Henry Cassel, Abraham Cassel, Mary Cassel.

HUPERT CASSEL came to Pennsylvania about 1715 or 1720 (Erika's note: I found a memorial gravestone that says they settled in 1717); married a Miss Syche and settled in Skippack.

His children were: Yelles, Elizabeth, Henry, Abraham, and Mary.

Hupert Cassel, our remote ancestor or original progenitor of the Cassels in America, more particularly the line repre- sented in this work, emigrated to this country about 1715 or 1720, from Kriesheim, called the Palatinate (Pfalz), a Province of Germany, west of the Rhine. It is now divided between Bavaria and Hesse-Hamburg. He was then a single man.

On his arrival in America he stopped at Germantown and hired his services to different individuals, both as a hus- bandman and weaver, until he became acquainted with a Dutch girl (native of Holland), whose Christian name was Syche, with whom, as soon as circumstances would permit, he was joined in the holy bond of matrimony. Meanwhile his brothers, Yelles, or Julius, and Johannes, who were cor- responding with him from Germany, charged him by the most solemn remonstrances not to marry a Dutch girl, they having for some — to me unknown — cause, imbibed a deep-rooted prejudice against the woman of that nation, but for which they had abundant occasion to repent, as the sequel will show. For soon after, his brothers, Yelles and Johannes, also emi- grated to America and arrived in the ship Friendship, on the 16th of October, 1727, after a passage of four months, from Rotterdam.

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Find A Grave contributor Ben Cassel has made a suggestion

I think I can clear up some confusion in the entries for his wife. Your Syche & Syntje are the same person.(1) I have also seen the name spelled “Sytje” (which is the spelling I prefer), but I’ve seen others including “Sytge”, “Seythe”, and the rather fanciful “Psyche”. She was the daughter of Hermann OP DEN GRAEFF and his first wife, Liesbet VAN BEBBER.(2) Upon Liesbet’s death, Hermann married Liesbet’s sister, Deborah VAN BEBBER. (3)

Sytje married first John KREY, and was mother of at least four children, Deborah, Susannah, Catherine, and John. (4) John KREY, Sr.’s will was probated in 1727 (5), and some time after that, she married Hupert CASSEL (6). She and Hupert were parents of Yelles, Elizabeth, Henry, Agraham, and Mary. (7) Hupert and Sytje are my 7th great grandparents.

(1) LUTZ, Jane Shaull. History of the Op den Graeff Family. Unpublished Manuscript, 1988. (2) CASSEL, Daniel Kolb. A Genealogical History of the Cassel Family in America… Norristown, PA: Morgan B. Wills Publishing, 1896, pp. 42-44. (3) LUTZ (4) Ibid. (5) PENNYPACKER, Samuel W. A Genealogy of the Pennypacker Family… Unpublished manuscript, 1880 (Reproduced by the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania), p. 18. (6) CASSEL (7) Ibid.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jan 11 2021, 0:40:15 UTC