Anton Schmidt, a single baker, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Saratov under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Sewald on 20 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 14 along with his new wife Anna Maria and daughter Maria Katharina (age ¼).
According to the records of the Guardianship Office for Foreign Settlers, Anton Schmidt moved from the colony of Sewald to Merkel in 1776.
Anton Schmidt and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Merkel in Household No. Mr26.
Johann Adam Schmidt, son of Anton Schmidt, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Merkel in Household No. 14.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Anton Schmidt came from the German region of Alsace.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schmidt among the Volga German colonies.
- 1834 Merkel Census (Household No. 14).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 368.
- 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): Mr26.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 170.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2782.
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