Reverend Yelles (Julius) Cassel

• Yelles (Julius) CASSEL was born in 1679. He died in 1750. He was buried in Lower Skippack Cemetery, PA. Yelles and his brother Johannes come to America in the ship Friendship from Rotterdam on October 16, 1727. Hupert divided his farm of one hundred and fifty acres with his brother Yelles. Yelles farmed and preached at Skippack. He signed the first audit in the Alms Book in 1738. Parents: Heinrich CASSEL.
• Immigration: Arrived at Philadelphia, PA from Germany aboard the ship "Friendshi from Rotterdam" on 16 Oct 1727. He brought with him manuscripts of his grandfather Yel les. He had a dying & fulling mill on the Ridge Valley creek, near Sumneyt own, PA in what is now Montgomery Co.
• Occupation: owner of dyeing/fulling mill on the Ridge Valley Creek, near Sumneytown, PA.
• Occupation: Mennonite Minister
• Burial: Lower Skippack Mennonite Cemetery, Skippack Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
• Reverend Yelles (Julius) Cassel Find A Grave Memorial
• Original Headstone of Reverend Yelles (Julius) Cassel in the Lower Skippack Mennonite Cemetery, Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Married

• Married Anna Meyer, b: ABT 1689 in Switzerland or Germany. (aft 1727 resided Skippack Twp, Montgomery Co, then part of Phila Co, PA).

Children

• Mary Cassel, b: BET 1712 AND 1721 in Europe
• Elizabeth Cassel, b: ABT 1723 in Europe
• John Cassel, b: ABT 1729 in PA
• Henry Cassel, b: ABT 1731 in PA
• Barbara Cassel, b: ABT 1732 in PA
• Hupert Cassel, b: ABT 1733 in PA
• Catherine Cassel, b: ABT 1734 in PA
• Isaac Cassel, b: 21 AUG 1746 in PA
• Joseph Cassel, b: ABT 1747 in PA

A genealogical history of the Cassel family in America : being the descendants of Julius Kassel, by North America, Family Histories

BROTHER HUPERT CASSEL, PAGE 40

Came to Pennsylvania about 1715 or 1720; 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 represented 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 corresponding 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 emigrated to America and arrived in the ship Friendship, on the 16th of October, 1727, after a passage of four months, from Rotterdam. Johannes Cassel settled westward in the vicinity of Co-lumbia, Lancaster County, PA.

Yelles or Julius Cassel settled with his brother Hubert, by whom he was received with the greatest imaginable kind-ness, and especially his wife. They boarded and lodged them, and afterwards divided their land, one hundred and fifty acres, with them and assisted them in every possible manner to put up his buildings, etc.; and, on the whole, she was such a noble, kind-hearted woman and so devotedly pious that he began to think she was one of a thousand, whose equal could not be found. In consequence he oft confessed and implored her forgiveness for having so unkindly and undeservedly despised her. The tract of land which he occupied (150 acres) was a part of 6166 acres taken up or bought of Matthias Van Beb-ber, of Bohemia River, Maryland, who bought it from William Penn, Proprietary Governor of Pennsylvania, dated 1702, of which Dirk and William Renberg, of Mühlheim, bought three hundred acres in the year 1705, of which Dirk Renberg bought his moiety, one hundred and fifty acres, in 1719, and settled on it, from whom the aforesaid Hupert Cassel, all of Van Bebber (Skippack) Township, bought the said tract of 150 acres. The date of the title is November 16, 1725, which has constantly been occupied by his descendants until the year 1855, a period of about 130 years, without a deed. Being constantly willed from father to son until the last occu-pant, Samuel Cassel, son of Henry Cassel, who died without issue, whereupon it was sold, in the year 1857, and passed into the hands of Mr. Johnson. The old articles of agreement between Dirk Renberg and Hupert Cassel are yet existing, bearing date July 24, 1725, and are in manner following, to wit: To give immediate pos-session. But the corn now in the ground is excepted, and sufficient house-room for himself and family till first of April next, and to keep a cow and horse with sufficient provender until the time aforesaid, and to have a good and lawful title executed until 16th of me bonds of €to each, the interest of the sum to be diminished only as the bonds are paid off, for the true performance of which they bound themselves in each other in a bond of £200 each. From his will we learn that he was a weakly man. A man of very delicate health, and, as it appears, never possessed much of this world's goods, for in his will we find many articles of a very trivial value specified to his several heirs. As for instance, to my dear and much beloved wife, "Syche," he says, I give €to in cash, with best bedstead and bedding, besides a featherbed and two extra sheets, pillow-cases, etc.; the first pick of my cows, besides some other very trifling articles, such as a teakettle, the little table, etc. To my son Yelles or Julius I give all that tract of land which I bought of William Johnson, which was then a dense wilderness, but he has already put buildings on and fitted it up for himself, boarded the workmen at home at a distance of two and a half miles. To my son Abraham I give my two looms with my whole weaving tacle. And to my son Henry I leave this, my residence, with a dower of €70 for the maintenance of my dear wife. And if in case she proves uneasy with the noisomness of the family my son Henry shall find and provide for her a convenient apartment, such as may be agreeable to her, out of her said legacy. And to my daughter Elizabeth, wife of Nicholas Halde-man, Jr., I give £10. And to my youngest daughter, Mary, I give the sum of twenty pounds current lawfull money, when she arrives at the age of eighteen years. The above is copied from the original manuscripts, now in possession of Abraham H. Cassel, at Harleysville, Montgomery County, Pa., by Samuel K. Cassel, great-great-grand-son of the aforesaid Hupert Cassel, January 2, 1879, for the Cassel gencalogy. Afterwards, when his health failed, all the papers in his possession were given into the hands of Daniel K. Cassel, of Germantown, brother of the above mentioned.

YELLES CASSEL, THE PREACHER.

The following is a historic sketch relating to Yelles Cassel and was printed by Christopher Saur in 1749, which I will give in its original language:
From A Warning Watchman's Voice by Jacob Lichy," the Stephan Benezet's daughter, sister of the
Anthony Benezet. Printed by Christoph Saur 1749 (now in the Library of A. H. Cassel). Daily experience proves that the Zinzen villages have the core characteristics of the false prophets and very often come uninvited and uninvited. Your indignant visit this year and last year among the Mennonites in Conestogo confirms it. Same as but the ravens, eagles and birds of prey. When you taste a vettes carrion, don't wait until you whistle for them. Rather, rush unbidden. So did the Zinzen villages by the Sons, sincere and wealthy Mennonites. But they are also mostly regarded as uninvited guests and sent away empty-handed, and they were left with nothing but to justify themselves with their own. Pretending to be such a great blessing among them, which is actually not Gemász. Then the Mennonists invented Zinzendorf at the first conference in Germantown 1741-42, lying already in broad terms and therefore no longer wanted to listen to him, but there was a teacher among them. By the name of Yelles Cassel, it has been persuaded by the Zinzen villagers that he should come to the conference in Oley and just listen, the count played the ruse that Cassel should sign his stuff for him, and by doing so the count would have deceived other Mennonists, or at least into them in the world, with the name of a Mennonist teacher from Pennsylvania, but the honest man apologized that he was neither in the
name of His congregation, or before Him Even something of his things could be written under, as the Graff says. I want to bet you what you want, that before a year will pass half the Mennonists shall be Moravian (of which more than 2000 are here) Yelles Cassel Sage; i have nothing to bet Zinzendorf Tell me again, why don't you want to bet? Cassel Sage, betting is a thing for losers or careless people and say again I don't bet and I don't sign anything either. Now that the graff was in the country for a year and still seven If the year is over and not a single Mennonist has become as Moravian as the Graff is, or has been brought into his net counte, then it is also a matter of course for them, according to the word of the Lord: When a prophet speaks something and if nothing comes of it, and does not come, then he is a false prophet, and his word is not from the Lord.
And one should not be afraid of him; then the prophet is careless and presumptuous, Deu. 18:20. Zeph. 1, 4, He speaks according to His heart's countenance, that was wrong. Jer. 23:16. But you met the Count's servants modestly, because you don't want to judge a foreign servant. The visitors may rightly boast so much. So.' 23 3.

Johannes Cassel, also a brother of Hupert and Yelles, came to America with his brother Yelles in the ship Friendship, from Rotterdam, on the 16th of October, 1727, and settled in Lancaster county, PA., in the vicinity of Columbia. These three were brothers, and also grandsons of Yelles' the preacher, at Kriesheim. They all came from Kriesheim, and, as far as known, were members of the Mennonite church. They also brought with them many valuable papers, manuscripts and poems, written by Yelles Kassel', at Kriesheim. A large portion of them were destroyed in a fire at the burning of the house of one Hupert Cassel, a grandson of Hupert the first, and many of them are yet in the library of Abraham HI. Cassel, at Harleysville, Montgomery county, PA.

Sources

• Genealogical history of the Cassel family in America : being the descendants of Julius Kassel, by North America, Family Histories, page 45.
• A brief history of Bishop Henry Funck and other Funk pioneers : and a complete genealogical family register with biographies of their descendants from the earliest available records to the present time, by Rev. A. J. Fretz.
• U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s.

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