Leonhard Reis, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
Johann Leonhard Reis, a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Schwab on 12 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 37.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Leonhard Reis came from the German region of Gersfeld. The 1767 census records that Johann Leonhard Reis came from the German village of Neubronn.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Reis family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 627.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 135.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5031.
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