Martin Dehler, a farmer, his wife Maria, and son Johann (age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
Martin Teller [sic] and his wife Maria Christiana are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Cäsarsfeld on 3 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 6 along with orphan Gottlieb Albrecht (age 7). The Dehler and Albrecht families had disembarked from the same ship in Oranienbau, but the 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Dehler and Albrecht families.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Martin Dehler came from the German region of Zerbst. The 1767 census records that Martin Daniel Dehler came from the German village of Schinalitsch [?] in the region of Zerbst.
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