Martin Mühlfelder, a farmer, his wife Christina, and children (Sebastian, age 11; Kunigunda, age 8; Maria, age 6; Ernst, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.
Martin Mühlfelder, his wife Christian, and children (Sebastian, age 11; Cunigunda, age 9; Anna Cunigunda, age 6; Ernestus, age 4) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that son Sebastian died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Leitsinger on 5 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 63.
Following the destruction of Leitsinger, surviving members of the Mühlfelder family resettled to the colony of Neu-Kolonie. Martin Milfelder, his wife, and stepson are recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk39.
The 1767 census records that Martin Mühlfelder came from the German village of Pikotn in the Bamberg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Nk39.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 74.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6141.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7594-7599.
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