Joseph Hammerschmidt, a single man, arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Лапоминк (Lapomink - a Russian river) under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Krykov.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Leitsinger on 12 May 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 17 along with his new wife, Anna Eva and the orphan Georg Schuster (age 17). The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Hammerschmidt and the Schuster families.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Joseph Hammerschmidt was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a hunter (Jäger).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Joseph Hammerschmidt came from Linz. The 1767 census records that Joseph Hammerschmidt came from the village of Linz in Austria.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hammerschmidt 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): 96.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 66.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #445.
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