Held(t) (Schuck)*

Jacob Held (age 23), a miller (Müller), his wife Elisabeth Seitz (age 20), and sister Margaretha Held (age 20) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms.

Jakob Held, a miller (Müller), settled in the Volga German colony of Schuck on 18 July 1766. He and his wife Elisabeth are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 10.

The 1765 Worms list records that Jacob Held came from the German village of Heppenheim. The 1767 census records that Jakob Held came from the German village of Heppenheim in the Mainz region.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Held family among the Volga German colonies.