Johann Tobias Gottwig, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and son Philipp Ludwig (age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian pink named Vologda [an historic Russian city] under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev.
Johann Tobias Gottwig, his wife Margaretha, and son Philipp (age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Walter in Household No. 37. They had settled in Walter on 25 August 1767.
Philipp Gottwig and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Walter in Household No. Wt048.
The 1767 census records that Johann Tobias Gottwig came from the German village of Schwateter in the region of Isenburg.
[Some translations erroneously record this surname as Helwig.]
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 613.
- 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): Wt048.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 303.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4908.
Brent Mai