Johann Sebastian, a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and son Andreas (age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Gilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
Orphan Johann Andreas [Se]Bastian (age 4), son of the deceased Johann Bastian, is recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 15 along with Konrad Östreich and his wife. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Östreich and [Se]Bastian families.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Sebastian came from the German region of Darmstadt.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Bastian family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 133.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 324.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #793.
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