Johann[es] Scharg [sic], a farmer, and his wife Anna Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Slon (Elephant) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Johannes Schorg, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Elisabeth Henriette are recorded on the 1767 census of Kranoyar in Household No. 8. They had arrived there on 20 July 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Scharg was a farmer from the German region of Stolberg. The 1767 census records that he was a craftsman (Handwerker) from the German region of Stolberg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 518.
- 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): Ks012.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 415.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4067.
Brent Mai