Johann [Matthias] Dossier, a single man, arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 May 1766 aboard the pink named Лапоминк (Lapomink) under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Krykov.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 19 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 56 along with his new wife Katharina.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Dossier was a miller from Tirrou. The 1767 census records that Matthias Dossier came from the village of Obraurangel [?] in Luxembourg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- 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): Bn36.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 227.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #372.
Brent Mai