Johann Graf, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 20; Elisabeth, age 16¼; Elisabeth [again], age 11; Mattias, age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a barque named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.
Heinrich Graf, a tiler (Fliesenleger), his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Elisabeth Maria, age 16; Johann Mattias, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dehler in Household No. 9. They had arrived in Dehler on 1 July 1767.
Mattias Graf and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dehler in Household No. Dl40.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Graf came from the German region of Nassau. The 1767 census records that Heinrich Graf came from the German village of Langenbach in the region of Nassau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Graf family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 433.
- 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): Dl40.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 269.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3368.
Brent Mai