Johann Heinrich Hessler, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and [step-]son Konrad [Pieh] (age 20) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Каргополь (Kargopol: a Russian City) under the command of Captain Lieutenant Moses Davydov.
Johann Heinrich Hessler, a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha are recorded on the 1767 census of Krasnoyar in Household No. 14. They had arrived in Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767. Konrad Pieh and his [new] wife Elisabeth are recorded there in Household No. 15.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Heinrich Hessler came from the German region of Laubach. The 1767 census records that Johann [Heinrich] Hessler came from the German region of Laubach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hessler family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 538.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 417.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4163.
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