According to profile Hobart-544, Catherine Elizabeth Hobart was the daughter of the Puritan Reverend Gershom Hobart of Groton, Massachusetts. She is said to have been born on 16 Feb 1675/6. The only source for her that I can find is a column in the Boston Transcript in a question about the Hobart family, in which is called only Elizabeth. (15 June 1925). I cannot find a second source for her. Sterns in his Genealogical and Family History Vol. 2 does not include her in the list of Gershom Hobart's children.
This woman supposedly married a German Mennonite immigrant to Philadelphia/Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1700. His name was Peter Cassel. No source for this is given. This information is all over the internet including sites such as findagrave and ancestry as well as individual webpages.
Red flags are flying in this profile, at least for me.
1. The use of middle names was all but unknown in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. No other sibling of Catherine Elizabeth has a middle name.
2. How would a woman from Groton meet and marry a man from Germantown, Pennsylvania and how did they end up in Virginia?
Can anyone help me verify that Gershom Hobart had a daughter named Elizabeth born in Groton in 1676?
Can we find any source to verify a marriage of Catherine Elizabeth and Peter?