Jakob Schott, a farmer, his wife Anna, and his children (Anna Maria, age 11; Johann, age 4; Anna, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Galka on 27 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 47.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Schott came from the German region of Stolberg. The 1767 census records that Jakob Schott came from the German village of Mittelsinn near Stolberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schott family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 251.
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- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1796.
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