An article by Hermann Wäschke records the following:
Johann Martin Wartmann, a tenant farmer (Halbspänner) from Quellendorf, who moved there from Oster-Nienburg in 1754, with wife and 3 children (one son & two daughters). Gottfried Selle from Zehmitz bought his farm with one Hufe plowed land and furnishings for 110 Thlr. His debts of 73 Thlr. 3 Gr. were paid, and the remaining 36 Thlr. 21 Gr. were sent to the ducal government.
Martin Wartmann, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Christoph, age 20; Anna, age 14; Dorothea, age 10) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Martin Wartemann, his wife Catharina, and children (Dorothea Soph.; Anna Sophia; Christoph [ages not recorded]) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Paulskaya on 22 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 5.
The 1767 census records that Martin Wartmann came from the German region of Dessau.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #1169.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 332.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1581.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1276-1280.
- Wäschke, Hermann. "Deutsche Familien in Russland" in Roland, Archiv für Stamm- und Wappenkunde, Jubiläumsschrift, 18 January 1912: 86.
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