Peter Fuchs, a farmer, his wife Agnesa, and children (Peter, age 12; Anna, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 August 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
They, along with newborn son Franz, are recorded on list of colonists recruited by Beauregard that was attached to the 1767 census in Household No. 134 along with a note that they relocated to the Volga German colony of Schönchen in 1768.
The 1798 Census of Zug records Franz Fuchs from Schönchen in Household No. Zg35.
The 1767 census records that Peter Fuchs came from the German village of Kougend?.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 35.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 887.
- 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): Zg35.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 377.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #7250.
Brent Mai