Johann Engraf, a farmer, his wife Anna, and son Johann (age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Neptunus (Neptune) under the command of Skipper Johann Graap.
Johann Engraff and his wife Anna are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Rothammel on 21 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 21.
In 1788, Adam Engraf and his family moved from Rothammel to Volmer.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Engraf came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Johann Adam Engraf came from the German village of Mömlingen in the Kurmainz region.
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Brent Mai