Peter Kaspar, a farmer, his wife Maria, and son Mattias (age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Chasselois in Household No. 37. They had settled there on 2 August 1766.
Following the destruction of Chasselois, the Kaspar family relocated to the colony of Louis.
Mattias Kaspar from Chasselois is recorded on the 1798 census of Louis in Household No. Ls48.
The 1767 census records that Peter Kaspar came from the German region of Trier.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kaspar family among the Volga German colonies.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ls48.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 260.
Brent Mai
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