Johann Gottfeld Vogt, a single wool weaver (Wollweber), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 August 1766 aboard the ship named Nordstern (North Star) under the command of Skipper Detlev Behling.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Walter and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 38 along with Johann Heinrich Schneider and his family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Vogt and Schneider families.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Gottfeld Vogt came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Vogt family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 663.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 303.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5272 (p.338).
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