Karl Will, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Elisabeth, age 16½; Johann [Peter], age 12; Maria, age 7; Weigand, age 5) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 May 1766 aboard a pink named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
The 1775 census of Grimm records the Karl Will family in Household No. 72.
In 1788, Weigand Will moved from Grimm to Bauer. The 1798 census of Bauer records Weigand Will in Household No. Br37.
The 1798 census of Grimm records Peter Will in Household No. Gm140.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Karl Will came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 72).
- 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): 97.
- 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): Br37, Gm140, Mv0758.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #454.
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