Spelling Variations
Plesa*
DePlassene*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Louis Martin DePlassene is recorded on a list of colonists dated May 1765.
Luis Plesa [sic], a single Edelmann, settled in the Volga German colony of Franzosen on 16 May 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 46.
The 1765 list of colonists records that Louis Martin Deplassene came from the French region of Bordeaux. The 1767 census records that Luis Plesa [sic] came from the French region of Bordeaux.
Sources
- Idt, Andreas & Georg Rauschenbach. Die "Berufer": Abenteurer der Aufklärung in Katharinas II. Kolonisierungsprojekt (Moscow, 2019): 48.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 451.
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