Jakob Stephan, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Maria (age 12-weeks) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of the Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
Jacob Steffens is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Dinkel on 27 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 36.
In 1795, widower Jakob Stephan moved from Dinkel to Stahl am Tarlyk.
Jakob Stephan from Dinkel and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. St26.
The death of Jakob Stephan in 1801 is recorded on the 1811 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. 27.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Stephan came from the German region of Holstein. The 1767 census records that Jakob Stephan came from the German village of Klinstadt [?] in the Holstein region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1811 Stahl am Tarlyk Census (Household No. 27).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 123.
- 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): St26, Mv0441.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 306.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #702.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1460.
Brent Mai