Kaspar Anschütz, an armourer (Waffenschmied), his wife Martha, and son Johann (age ¾) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Caspar Anschütz, his wife Margaretha, and son Johannes (age 3) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that son Johannes died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Philippsfeld on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 36.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Kaspar Anschütz came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that Kaspar Anschütz came from the German village of Mehlis in Sachsen (Saxony).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Anschütz family among the Volga German colonies.
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