David Klein, a farmer, his wife Sabina, and children (Katharina, age 19; Daniel, age 17¼; Appolonia, age 13; Barbara, age 9; Philipp, age 6; Margaretha, age 3) 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.
Widower David Klein and his children (Katharina, age 19; Daniel, age 17; Appolonia, age 14; Anna Barbara, age 11, Philipp, age 8; Margaretha, age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kautz in Household No. 3. They had arrived in Kautz on 20 May 1767.
Before 1798, Daniel Klein's widow and children moved from Kautz to Merkel.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that David Klein came from the German region of Pfalz. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Freimersheim in the Kurpfalz.
- 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): 333.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Kz18, Kz33, Mr25.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 334.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2467.
Brent Mai