Dear Gary, you picked a fine day 4 years ago to place
your query on the new TEGE Rootsweb Message Board.
It was on my birthday, but nobody in those 4 years since
replied with any information and this is sad.
I therefore checked the German Telefonbuch's website
http://www.dastelefonbuch.de and found 60 entries for
that name in the whole of Germany. And believe it or not,
there is one entry very close to where Jacob was born.
His name is Erwin TEGE, from 39638 Berge-Laatzke,
some 40 km west of 39576 Stendal, State of Sachsen-
Anhalt. Now this man may be a direct descendant of your
Jakob, and you possibly could write him.
But in any event, the name TEGE is not unknown in that
area.
Good luck in your search.
John H. Merz,
researching Hessian soldiers of the American Revolution.