Jakob Kapp, a farmer, his wife, Anna, and stepchildren (Maria Katharina Jung, age 12; Katharina Jung, age 11; Johannes Jung, age 10; Johann Nikolaus Jung, age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Rohleder in Household No. 15. They had arrived in Rohleder on 14 June 1766.
Wilhelm Kapp, presumed son of Jakob Kapp, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Rohleder in Household No. Rl34.
The death of Wilhelm Kapp in 1828 is recorded on the 1834 census of Rohleder in Household No. 4.
The 1767 census records that Jakob Kapp came from the German region of Trier.
- 1834 Rohleder Census (Households No. 4, 24).
- 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): Rl34.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 51.
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