Johann Peter Dieser, son of Jakob (born 23 September 1715 in Seligenstadt) & Anna Margaretha Dieser, was born in Seligenstadt on 13 June 1744.
Peter Dieser, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 27 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Слон (Slon - Elephant in Russian) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Peter Dieser, a farmer, and his wife Anna Maria Reis are recorded on the 1767 census of Leichtling in Household No. 27. They had arrived in Leichtling on 14 May 1767.
In 1793, Michael Dieser moved from Leichtling to Semenovka. Other descendants moved to the colonies of Pfeifer, and Josefstal.
Peter Dieser and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Leichtling in Household No. Lg26.
Peter Dieser, son of Peter Dieser, [from Leichtling] and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Husaren in Household No. 10.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Dieser came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Seligenstadt in the Mainz region.
- 1834 Husaren Census (Household No. 10).
- 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): 110-111.
- 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): Lg26, Lg35, Se09, Mv1544.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 57.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #584.
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