Andreas Jäger, a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and [step-]children (Johann [Kater], age 12½; Katharina [Kater], age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a galliot named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper David Wohlert.
Andreas Jäger, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and her children (Johann Kater, age 15; Anna Katharina Kater, age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schwed in Household No. 2. They had settled in Schwed on 12 July 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Jäger came from the German region of Riedesel. The 1767 census records that Andreas Jäger came from the German village of Lauterbach.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 265.
- 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): Sw17.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 139.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1910.
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