1. YELLES1 KASEL was born Abt. 1590 in Kriesham, Germany, and died 1681 in Germany. He married UNK in Germany.
Notes for YELLES KASEL:
Yelles and family lived in hiding most of their lives, moving from town to town, but Yele's main residence was Kriesham and Worm, Germany, which are about six miles apart. Yelles was a Mennonite Minister,a poet of note, a friend of Martin Luther, and a farmer.
William Penn, who was later to be know as the founder of Penn's Woods, or what is known today as the State of Pennsylvania, came to speak, in 1681, at a meeting in the city of Kassel at Frankfort, when he was 37 years old. He then went to Kriesham for a meeting. The meeting was held in secret because that type of religious preaching was forbidden by the authorities.Yelles and members of his family traveled from Worm,Germany, by wagon, to attend the meeting. Mr.Penn spoke of the need for religious freedom.Yelles and other Kasels present, members of the newly emerging Mennonite Church were so impressed with Penn's ideas, that they invited him to their home.Penn told them of the free land that was available in the new world.Two sons of Yelles were the first Cassels to come to America under the terms of a promise to William Penn. they were JOHANNES and Arnold. They came on the ship Jefferies and it took seven months to make the voyage
Children of YELLES KASEL and UNK are:
