Melchior Lederer, a farmer, his wife Anna, children (Johann, age 15¼; Anna, age 10¼; Johannes, age 6), son Friedrich, and daughter-in-law Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Svyataya Ekaterina (St. Catherine) under the command of Midshipman Alexander Trusov.
Friedrich Lederer [sic], a farmer, his wife Maria Magdalena, daughter Maria Christina (age 1), and brother Jakob (age 15) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dietel in Household No. 18. They had arrived in Dietel on 1 July 1767.
Friedrich Lederer [sic] and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dietel in Household No. Dt08.
The death of Friedrich Leterle [sic] in 1806 is recorded on the 1811 census of Dietel in Household No. 8. Friedrich has no known surviving male lines.
Jakob Letner from Dietel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br03.
Brothers Johann Peter Letner, Johann Jakob Letner, and Johann Georg Letner, sons of Jakob Letner, are recorded on the 1834 census of Bauer in Household No. 16.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Melchior Detterer [sic] came from the German region of Pfalz. This 1767 census records that Friedrich Lederer [sic] came from the German village of Pfirschbach near Dessenfelz.
- 1811 Dietel Census (Household No. 8).
- 1834 Bauer Census (Households No. 16, 87, 99).
- 1857 Bauer Census (Households No. 16, 88, 99).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 332.
- 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): Br03, Br04, Dt08.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 286.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2462, #2463.
Brent Mai