Martin [sic] Weiss, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and son Heinrich (age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Saratov under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Sebastian Weiss, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Sewald on 20 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 20.
In 1788, Sebastian Weiss and his family moved from Sewald to Seelmann.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Martin [sic] Weiss came from the German region of Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Sebastian Weiss came from the German region of Rot.
- 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): 367.
- 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): Sm32, Sm33, Mv2747.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 171.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2774.
Brent Mai