Jacob Bub [sic] (age 32), a farmer, and his wife Maria Elisabeth Bommer are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms.
Jakob Bupp, a farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Schuck on 18 July 1766. He and his wife Maria Elisabeth are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 13.
The 1765 Worms list records that Jacob Bub [sic] came from the German village of Lorsch. The 1767 census records that Jakob Bupp came from the German village of Lorsch in the Mainz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 129 (#392-393).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 113.
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