Georg [Wilhelm] Pflug a tailor, his wife Katharina, son (Karl, age 3), [step-]daughter Henrietta [Zimmermann] (age 13), and father Peter 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.
Joh. Peter Pflug, his son Georg Wilhelm Pflug, Georg Wilhelm's wife Catharina, and their son (Carll Lorentz, age 3), and their [step-]daughter Henrietta [Zimmermann] (age 13) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Joh. Peter, Catharina, and Carll Lorentz died en route.
[Georg] Wilhelm Pflug, a tailor (Schneider), and his [new] wife Anna are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 85 along with his step[daughter] Henrietta [not Heinrich] Zimmermann (age 13). They had arrived in Kaneau on 3 August 1767.
Neither the Oranienbaum passenger list nor the 1767 census record from where Henrietta Zimmerman came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Zimmermann family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 677.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 262, 263.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5380.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3139-3143.
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