Mathias Schütz, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughter Julianna (age ¾) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
Matheus Schütz and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Mattias Schütz and his wife Anna are recorded on the 1767 census of Bettinger in Household No. 18. They had settled in Bettinger on 3 August 1767.
In 1791, Johann Philipp Schütz moved from Bettinger to Biberstein.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Mathias Schütz came from the German region of Darmstadt while the 1767 census records that Mathias Spitz [sic] came from the German village of Burg Gemünden.
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Brent Mai