Heinrich Peil and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Der Junge Mattias under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.
Heinrich Peil and his wife Anna Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Bangert in Household No. 21. They had settled in Bangert on 1 July 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Peil was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a hosier (Strumpfwirker).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Peil came from the German region of Hessen. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Homburg in the Darmstadt region.
- 1834 Bangert Census (Households No. 9, 47).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 110.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #3383.
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