Adam Windemuth, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and daughters (Anna, age 18; Katharina, age 12; Elisabeth, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Johann Adam Windemuth, a farmer, his wife Anna, daughters [by a previous marriage] (Katharina, age 14; Elisabeth, age 10), and stepchildren [surname Schäfer] (Johann Valentin, age 12; Anna, age 10; Otto Heinrich, age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 68. They had settled there on 23 July 1767.
In 1786, Adam Windemuth and his family moved from Kaneau to Schaffhausen.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Adam Windemuth came from the German region of Hessen. The 1767 census records that Johann Adam Windemuth came from the German village of Weiden in the Hessen region.
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Brent Mai