Schwar(t)z (Leitsinger)

Johann [Georg] Schwarz, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and son Jakob (age 10½) arrived from Reval at the port of Oranienbaum on 30 May 1766 aboard the pink Lopamink under the command of Lieutenant Kryukov. Sebastian Schwarz, a farmer, and his wife Anna were also aboard this ship.

Sebastian Schwarz (age 23), a farmer, his wife Margaretha (age 24), stepson [perhaps rather a brother of Margaretha] Johann Adam [surname not recorded] (age 11), and father Georg (age 48) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger. They had settled there on 12 May 1767.

The 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie records a couple of orphaned Schwartz children (Thomas, age 10, in Household No. Nk20; Wilhelm, age 4, in Household No. Nk21), and because Leitsinger was destroyed and many survivors resettled to Neu-Kolonie, it is presumed that they are descendants of Sebastian Schwartz.

Thomas Schwartz is recorded on the 1811 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 18 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Seelmann in 1809.

Michael [sic] Schwartz from Keller [sic] [which had been destroyed like Leitsinger] is recorded on the 1811 census of Seelmann in Household No. 31 along with a note that he had arrived in Seelmann from Keller in 1808.

Wilhelm Schwartz is recorded on the 1811 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 19.

Wilhelm Schwartz and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 21.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann [Georg] Schwarz came from the German region of Pfalz. It records that Sebastian Schwarz came from the German region of Regensburg. The 1767 census records that Sebastian Schwartz came from the German village of Fraunseck in the Pfalz-Neuburg region.