Anton Weitz and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Der Jäger under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 15 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 122 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Seelmann in 1768.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anton Weitz was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a hunter (Jäger).
The 1767 census records that Anton Weitz came from the German village of Messelgrube [?] in the Kurmainz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Weitz family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 436.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2187.
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