Joseph Leinfried [sic] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.
Joseph Liebfried [sic] is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Joseph Leipfried, a miller (Müller), and his wife Maria are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard (No. 25).
Joseph Leipfried and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Wittmann in Household No. Wm23.
The 1767 census records that Joseph Leipfried came from the German village of Eichenbühl.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 848.
- 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): Wm02, Wm23.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6870 [not included in the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 200.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4797.
Brent Mai