Philipp Grün, a farmer, his wife Eva, and daughter Anna Margaretha (age 7) 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.
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.
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