Jakob Breier, a weaver (Weber), and his wife Anna Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Jacob Breuer and his wife Anna Maria are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 7 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 16.
In 1788, August Breier moved from Boisroux to Meinhard.
The 1798 census of Boisroux records in Household No. Bx25 that Christian Breier is working in Bettinger.
Johann Heinrich Breier from Meinhard is recorded on the 1811 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 40.
Andreas Breier and his wife are recorded on an 1865 list of colonists resettling to Lilienfeld along with a note that they arrived in Lilienfeld from Boisroux on 11 April 1859.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Jakob Breier came from the German region of Zerbst.
- 1811 Nieder-Monjou Census (Household No. 40).
- 1865 Lilienfeld List.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 208.
- 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): Bx25, Mn22, Mv0319.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 143.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1430.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0828-0829.
Brent Mai