The births of two children born to Sebastian Schmidt are recorded in the parish register of Burgsinn: (1) Johann Michael, born 24 June 1757; and (2) Johann Vollpert, born 26 March 1761.
Sebastian Schmidt, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Anna Rosina, age 18; Johann, age 12; Johann Michael, age 8; Johann Filbert, age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Каргополь (Kargopol: a Russian City) under the command of Captain Lieutenant Moses Davydov.
Sebastian Schmidt (age 50), a farmer, his wife Anna Maria (age 35), and children (Anna Rosina, age 18; Michael, age 9; Filbert, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kraft in Household No. 20. They had arrived in Kraft on 18 August 1767.
Anna Rosina Schlotthauer née Schmidt and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kraft in Household No. Kf17.
Folbert Schmidt and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kraft in Household No. Kf25.
Folbert Schmidt and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Kraft in Household No. 42.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Sebastian Schmidt came from the German region of Dienheim while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Burgsinn.
- 1834 Kraft Census (Household No. 42).
- 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): 541.
- 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): Kf17, Kf25.
- Parish register of Burgsinn.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 398.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4195.
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