Widower Jakob [sic] Klehr, a farmer, and his children (Johann, age 20; Johannes, age 18; Kasimir, age 16¼; Heinrich, age 12; Katharina, age 10¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a barque named Fortitudo (Fortitude) under the command of Skipper John Scott.
Widower Philipp Clor [sic] and his children (Joh. Wilhelm, age 20; Johannes, age 18; Casimier, age 16¼; Johan Heinrich, age 13; Catarina, age 11) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that sons Joh. Wilhelm, Johannes, and Casimier died en route.
Widower Philipp Kleer, a craftsman, and his surviving children (Johann Heinrich, age 14, and Katharina, age 12) settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 26 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 183.
The Facius List records that Philipp Kleer (age 50) came from the German village of Wenings. Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Philipp Kleer came from the German region of Isenburg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 473.
- List of those recruited by Johann Facius from 13 November 1765 to 18 February 1766.
- 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): Nr058.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 278.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #3697.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2446-2451.
Brent Mai