Abraham Freund, a farmer, his wife Maria, and daughter Maria (age ½) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Abraham Freund, his wife Katharina, and stepson Karl Ruppel are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Supplement No. 1.
The 1798 census of Grimm records Abraham Freund in Household No. Gm162 along with a note that he is actually in Balzer.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Abraham Freund came from the German region of Erbach.
- 1775 Census of Grimm (Supplement No. 1).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 104.
- 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): Gm162.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #523.
Brent Mai