Valentin [sic] Freyhaut (age 30), a single farmer, is recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms.
Valentin [sic] Freihaut, a farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Schuck on 18 June 1766. He and his wife Katharina are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 3.
The widow and children of Christian [sic] Freihaut are recorded on the 1798 census of Schuck in Household No. Su07.
Christian Freihaut, son of Christian Freihaut, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Schuck in Household No. 16.
The 1765 Worms list records that Valentin [sic] Freyhaut came from the German village of Bibols [?]. The 1767 census records that Valentin Freihaut came from the German village of Starkenburg in the Mainz region.
- 1834 Schuck Census (Household No. 16).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 128 (#381).
- 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): Su07.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 111.
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