Philipp Grün, a farmer, his wife Eva, and daughter Anna Margaretha (age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the pink Cargo under the command of Lieutenant Moses Davydov.
Widower Philipp Grün and his daughter Anna Margaretha (age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 69. They had arrived They settled in Köhler on 21 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Grün came from the German region of Mainz while the 1767 census records that he came from the German region of Hanau.
- 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): Kl30.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 377.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4120 (p.270).
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