Johann Adam Weiss, his wife Anna, and children (Jakob, age 20; Johann, age 11; Philipp, age 8) 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.
Adam Weiss, his wife Anna Christina née Reitz, and sons (Jakob, age 23; Philipp, age 16) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 135.
Jakob Weiss is recorded on the 1798 census in Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka028.
The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Adam Weiss came from the German village of Salmünster Stift in the Fulda region and that his sons were from the German village of Westerburg in the Leiningen region.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 135).
- 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): 882.
- 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): Ka028.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #7204.
Brent Mai