Widow Magdalena Ries and her children (Johann Georg, age 18; Katharina, age 9; Dorothea, age 6; Johann Peter, age 5; Johann Adam, age 2) are recorded on the 1798 census of Zug in Household No. Zg32.
Peter Ries and his brother Adam are recorded on the 1834 census of Zug in Household No. 96.
Peter Ries (whose death is recorded in 1833) and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Louis in Household No. 118 along with a note that they had arrived in Louis from Zug in 1819.
[A translation of the 1798 census erroneously records this surname as Ross.]
- 1834 Louis Census (Household No. 118).
- 1834 Zug Census (Household No. 96).
- 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): Zg32.
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