Friedrich Schapp, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Guilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
Friedrich Schapp is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Friedrich Schapf [sic], a single craftsman (Handwerker), settled in the Volga German colony of Frank and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 108 along with a note that he's working as a day laborer (Lohnarbeiter).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Friedrich Schapp came from the German region of Reidesel. The 1767 census records that Friedrich Schapf [sic] came from the German village of Laudenbach in the Freie Adelprovinz der alten Ritter.
There are no know surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
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