Johann Pfuhl, a farmer, his wife Anna Magdalena, and children (Johann Peter, age 14¾; Anna Katharina, age 11; Johann, age 8; Jakob, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.
Johannes Puhl, a farmer, his wife Anna Magdalena, and son Johann Peter (age 16) are recorded on the 1767 census of Sewald in Household No. 36. They had arrived in Sewald on 20 August 1767.
Johann Peter Puhl and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Sewald in Household No. Sd01.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Pfuhl came from the German region of Trier. The 1767 census records that Johannes Pfuhl came from the German village of Bernkastel in the Trier region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 425.
- 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): Sd01, Sd35.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 175.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3318.
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