Spelling Variations
Ferter
Vörter
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Jakob Vörter, a single gardner (Gärtner), settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 202.
The 1767 census records that Jakob Vörter came from the German region of Halle.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 317.
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Brent Mai