Mattias Tilgen [sic], a farmer, his wife Appolonia, and daughter Anna (age ½-year) 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.
Mattias Dillje [erroneously translated by some as Tichin], a cooper (Böttcher), and his wife Apollonia settled in the Volga German colony of Sewald on 20 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 23.
Mattias Dillie and his descendants are recorded on the 1798 census of Sewald in Households No. Sd03 & Sd19.
The 1834 cesus of Sewald records the descendants of Mattias Dillie in Households No. 34, 35, 41, & 62.
The 1857 census of Sewald records Dillie descendants in Households No. 37, 38, 44, & 65.
The 1767 census records that Mathias Dillje came from the German village of Platten in the Trier region.
- 1834 Sewald Census (Households No. 34, 35, 41, 62).
- 1857 Sewald Census (Households No. 37, 38, 44, 65).
- 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): Sd03, Sd19.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 172.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2771.
Brent Mai