Cassey House

[4] His wife was Amy Matilda Williams (1809–1875), from a prominent African American family in New York City, her father was a leading Methodist Episcopalian minister, Rev.

[6] When Joseph Cassey died in 1848, Amy remarried two years later to Charles Lenox Remond and moved to Salem, Massachusetts, where she continued her work in abolition and civil rights.

Both Annie Wood and Charlotte Forten lived with the Remonds while attending school in Salem; they regarded Amy's daughter, Sarah Cassey, as their sister.

Cassey left San Jose to become the first African American clergy at St. Cyprian's Church in New Bern, North Carolina.

[1] A postal worker and performing musician, although his early trade was as a gilder, carver, and painter of ornamental work, Alfred was the first Chair of the American Negro Historical Society in 1897 and lived with his family in this house.

Son Joseph C. Cassey was principal bookkeeper to Stephen Smith and William Whipper, lumber merchants in Columbia, Pennsylvania, and notable African-Americans in Philadelphia.

In 1866, the whole of 243 Delancey Street, with all buildings, including the main house and now three trinities, was bought by Francis L. Cassey at a sheriff's sale.

Copies of these deeds can be found at the Philadelphia City Archives and at the Blockson Collection, Temple University in the Cassey file.