Johann [Heinrich] Reichert, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Joh. Heinr. Reichert, his wife Eleonora, and sons (Johan Georg, age 9½; Johann Heinrich, age 8½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
In 1790, Heinrich Reichert moved from Boisroux to Katharinenstadt.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Reichert was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a pepper maker (Pfefferbearbeiter).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Reichert came from the German region of Wertrach. The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Reichert came from the German region of Selben.
- 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): Ka102, Mv0323.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 141.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4455.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6101-6104.
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