Georg Hartmann, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
Johann George Hartmann and his wife Margretha are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Hölzel on 11 September 1767. Georg is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 37 along with his new wife Anna Maria.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Hartmann was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a miller (Müller).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Hartmann came from the German region of Schwaben (Swabia). The 1767 census records that Georg Hartmann came from the German village of Nietheim [?] in the region of Schwaben (Swabia).
There are no known surviving male lines of this 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): 746.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 118.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5964.
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