Andreas Schmidt, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johann Gottlieb, age 20; Anton, age 17½; Johann Daniel, age 14; Johann Karl, age 7; Katharina, age 3) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Лапоминк (Lapomink - a Russian river) under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Krykov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dietel.
The 1798 census of Dietel records sons [Johann] Karl in Household No. Dt13, [Johann] Daniel in Household No. Dt59, and [Johann] Gottlieb in Household No. Dt68.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Schmidt came from the German region of Schwarzburg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 95.
- 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): Dt13, Dt59, Dt68.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #437.
- Stumpp, Karl. The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 to 1862 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1993): 84.
Brent Mai