Valentin Müller from Ober Sinn & Eliesabetha Zobel from Alt Gronau were married on 17 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Valentin Müller, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Slon (Elephant) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 107.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Valentin Müller came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Obersinn in the Würzburg region.
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- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ks065.
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Brent Mai