Friedrich Metz, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and son Johann (age 12) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Gilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
Friedrich Metz, a farmer, his wife Maria Katharina, and son Johannes (age 12) settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 28 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 21.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Friedrich Metz came from the German region of Nassau. The 1767 census records that Friedrich Metz came from the German village of Königshofen in Nassau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Metz family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 132.
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- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #783.
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