Sebastian Gotha [sic] (age 28), a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth Geyer (age 27) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms.
Sebastian Götte, a farmer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and daughter Maria Elisabeth (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schuck in Household No. 7. They had arrived in Schuck on 18 June 1766.
Johannes Götte, presumed son of Sebastian Götte, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schuck in Household No. Su07.
Katharina Kohlmann née Götte, presumed daughter of Sebastian Götte, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schuck in Household No. Su29.
The 1765 Worms list records that Sebastian Gotha [sic] came from the German village of Börstadt [sic]. The 1767 census records that Sebastian Götte came from the German village of Bürstadt in the region of Mainz.
- 1834 Schuck Census (Household No. 24).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 129 (#408-409).
- 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, Su29.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 112.
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