Simon Stahl, a linen weaver (Leineweber), his wife Anna, and children (Maria, age 18; Barbara, age 16½; Johann, age 15) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit (Vigilance) under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.
Simon Stahl, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Barbara, age 18; Adam, age 16) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Maria Stahl, her unnamed husband (a farmer), and son Adam (age 19) settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 5 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census along with a note that the unnamed husband died 13 November 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Simon Stahl came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that Maria Stahl came from the German village of Niegerschweld [?] in the Würzburg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Stahl family among the Volga German colonies.
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