Jakob Jessen, a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Tarlyk on 5 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 29.
Jakob [Jessen] and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Households No. St22 and St23.
This family is recorded on the 1834 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. 30 under the surname of Gessen (Гесенъ). This surname (Gessen) continues on the 1850 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Households No. 47, 48, 49, & 50.
The 1767 census records that Jakob Jessen came from the Danish village of Schlouchs [?].
- 1834 Stahl am Tarlyk Census (Household No. 30).
- 1850 Stahl am Tarlyk Census (Households No. 47-50).
- 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): St22, St23.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 211.
Brent Mai