Johannes Ries, son of Johannes Ries, and Sophia Elisabetha Eberhard married on 24 February 1756 at the Reformed Church in Altenhaßlau. The baptisms of four of their children are recorded in Altenhaßlau: (1) Johann Georg, born 13 March 1756; (2) Anna Elisabeth, born 31 October 1758; (3) Johannes, born 11 August 1761; and (4) Johannes, born 19 October 1764.
Johann Ries, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Elisabeth, age 8; Johann, age 6; Hans, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 27 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Слон (Slon - Elephant in Russian) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Johannes Ries (age 31), a farmer, his wife Maria Sophia Elisabeth (age 31), and children (Anna Elisabeth, age 10; Johannes, age 8; Jonas, age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 120. They had arrived in Warenburg on 12 May 1767.
In 1786, Johannes Ries moved from Warenburg to the Caucasus.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Ries came from the German region of Hanau. The 1767 census records that Johannes Ries came from the German village of Altenhasslau in the Hanau region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
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- 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): Wr009, Mv2971.
- Parish register of Altenhaßlau.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 339.
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