Johannes Drosch [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and daughters (Anna Katharina, age 5¼; Anna Katharina [again], age 2¼; Margaretha, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a galliot named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper David Wohlert.
Johannes Dross (age 29), a farmer, his wife Anna Maria (age 32), and daughter Anna Margaretha (age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dönhof in Household No. 70. They had arrived in Dönhof on 18 June 1767.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johannes Dross came from the German region of Darmstadt.
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Brent Mai