Philipp Jung, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a ship named Der Friede (Peace) under the command of Skipper Hans Karck.
Philip Jung and his wife Catharina are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that wife Catharina died en route. Traveling with them was Nikolaus Weidemann, identified later as a stepson.
Philipp Jung is recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census in Household No. 78 along with his new wife Maria [widow of Johannes Sommer] and stepchildren (Nikolaus Weidemann, age 22; Christina Sommer, age 16; Maria Sommer, age 14). The Sommer family had arrived in Oranienbaum on the same ship as the Jungs.
Philipp had arrived in Oranienbaum on the same ship with the Nikolaus Weidemann and the Sommer family.
Since they settled in Wittmann, it is assumed that Philipp Jung settled there also.
The 1767 census records that Philipp Jung came from the German village of Pfaffenbach.
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Brent Mai