Hermann Heinrich Borgens, a farmer, his wife Sophia, and children (Rudolph, age 14; Daniel, age 12; Dorothea, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Diederika (Lady Diederika) under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Lunau.
Hermann Heinrich Borgens, his new wife Katharina [believed to be the widow of Georg Bartholomae], and children (Heinrich, age 14; Daniel, age 12; Georg [Bartholomae], age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Walter in Household No. 73. They had settled there on 25 August 1767.
In 1798, Johann Georg Borgens moved from Walter to Frank.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Hermann Heinrich Borgens came from the German region of Hildesheim. The 1767 census records that Hermann Heinrich Borgens came from the German village of Paulsin in the region of Plekenberg.
- 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): 759.
- 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): Fk001, Wt023, Wt117, Mv2970.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 311.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6071.
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