Christoph Dechant, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Concordia under the command of Skipper Jakob Bauert.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Pfeifer on 15 June 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 30 along with a note that he was widowed after arriving in the colony [so he had married at some point between arrival in Oranienbaum and arrival in Pfeifer].
Christoph Dechant and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf74.
The 1767 census records that Christoph Dechant came from the German village of Wörth am Main in the district of Mainz.
- 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): Pf74.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 385.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2616.
Brent Mai