Johannes Weber, a farmer, and his wife Regina Klara arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Der Jäger under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 15 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 102.
The widow of Johannes Weber and their children (Johannes, age 16; Anna Maria, age 12) are recorded on the 1798 census of Preuss in Household No. Ps50.
The death of Johannes Weber in 1820 is recorded on the 1834 census of Preuss in Household No. 150.
The family of Heinrich Weber, son of Johannes Weber, is recorded on the 1850 census of Preuss in Household No. 169.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Weber came from the German village of Drees in the Kurtrier.
- 1834 Preuss Census (Household No. 150).
- 1850 Preuss Census (Household No. 169).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- 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): Ps50.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 431.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2185.
Brent Mai