Philipp Leitsinger, a farmer, his wife Gertruda, and children (Gertruda, age 16¼; Johann, age 7; Georg, age 3) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 May 1766 aboard a pink named Слон (Elephant) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Philipp Leitsinger, a farmer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, son Johann Adam (age 8), and stepdaughters [surnames not recorded] (Margaretha, age 8; Katharina, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 1 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Straub in 1768. They had arrived in Leitsinger on 12 May 1767.
The 1767 census also records that Philipp Leitsinger is the mayor (Vorsteher) of the colony. It is after him that the colony was named.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Leitsinger came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Philipp Leitsinger came from the German village of Aschaffenburg in the Kurmainz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Leitsinger family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 111.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 63.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #589.
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