Johannes Kuhlmann, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Elisabeth, age 6; Johann, age 4; Anna, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 17 July 1766 aboard a pink named Lev (Lion) under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kutter on 8 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 42.
The 1857 census of Rosenberg records the family of Johann Peter Kuhlmann from Kutter in Household No. 29.
Johann Georg Kuhlmann from Kutter and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Oberdorf in Household No. 70.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johannes Kuhlmann was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a craftsman (Handwerker).
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johannes Kuhlmann came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1857 Oberdorf Census (Household No. 70).
- 1857 Rosenberg Census (Household No. 29).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 316.
- 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): Kt03.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 486.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2329.
Brent Mai