Saame*
Johann Adam Saam [sic] (age 29), his wife Clara Juliana (age 32), and children (Anton Friedrich, age 4; Christina Catharina, age 1½) immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein), arriving in Flensburg on 19 June 1762. They swore allegiance to King Friedrich of Denmark on 19 July 1762.
On 1 October 1764, the family is recorded in the Danish colony of Nordscheide.
The parish register of Havetoft records on 29 November 1764 the baptism of Georg Jacob Saam, son of Johann Adam Saam.
They are last recorded in the Danish colonies on 22 April 1765.
Adam Sam, a miller (Müller), and his family joined the migration to Russia and settled in the Volga German colony of Rosenheim on 15 March 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 56.
The Eichhorns record that Johann Adam Sam came from the German village of Wimpfen. The 1767 census records that Adam Sam came from the German village of Bichwen in Schwäbischen Reichskreis.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-1395.
- Parish register of Havetoft [Denmark].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 76.
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