David Gebhardt, a single tailor (Schneider), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
David Gebhardt is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
David Gebhardt, a single farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Jost on 5 September 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 84 along with a note that he is working as a day-laborer for Christian Hausmann.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that David Gebhardt came from the Netherlands. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Halle in the Brandenburg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Gebhardt family among the Volga German colonies.
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