Jakob Hahn, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Franz Nikolaus Schröder.
Jakob Hahn is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with others who were settled temporarily in Beauregard.
Jakob Hahn, a single farmer, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 73 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Zürich in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Jakob Hahn came from the German village of Friedewald in the Hessen region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hahn family among the Volga German colonies.
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