Joachim Christoph Petersen and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.
Johann Chris. Petersen and his wife Anna are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Christoph Peterson, a hunter (Jäger), and his wife Regina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 35.
Christoph Petersen and his wife Anna Regina née Rosenstahl are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 140 along with a note that he died in 1783.
The Oranienbaum passenger list does not record from where Joachim Christoph Petersen came. The 1767 census records that Christoph Peterson came from the German village of Bassenheim. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Christoph Petersen came from the German village of Schwerin in the region of Mecklenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Petersen family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 140).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 852.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 202.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6920.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4269-4270.
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