Michael Hartwig, a farmer, his wife Julianna, and daughters (Katharina, age 24; Anna, age 22; Maria, age 19; Magdalena, age 15) 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. Arriving with them in Oranienbaum were two additional children: (1) Stephan [Gottfried] Hartwig, his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Anna (age 1¼); and (2) Anna [Hartwig] and her husband Konrad Götz, and daughter Susanna (age 1¼).
Stephan Gottfried Hartwig, his wife Elisabeth, and their children (Katharina, age 7; Johannes, age 5½) are recorded on the 1775 census of the Volga German colony of Schilling in Household No. 74. The 1798 census records the family in Household No. Sg054.
Anna Margaretha Hartwig, her husband Konrad Götz, and their family are recorded on the 1767 census of Messer in Household No. 39.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that the Hartwig family came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1775 Census of Schilling (No. 74).
- 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): 242-243.
- 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): Sg054.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 140.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1727, #1732, #1737.
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