Adam Siebert, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Anna Christina, age 7; Johann Martin, age 2-weeks) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Каргополь (Kargopol: a Russian City) under the command of Captain Lieutenant Moses Davydov.
Adam Siebert and his daughter Anna Christina (age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 75 along with his new wife Klara Eberle. They had settled in Köhler on 21 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Adam Siebert came from the German region of Baden. The 1767 census records that Adam Siebert came from the German village of Alt Simmern in the region of Baden.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 539.
- 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): Kl39.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 378.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4175.
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