Peter Weiss, a farmer, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a galliot named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper David Wohlert.
Peter Weiss, a farmer, and his wife Maria Eva Wolf settled in the Volga German colony of Hildmann on 20 June 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 15.
Eva, the widow of Peter Weiss, and their children are recorded on the 1798 census of Hildmann in Household No. Hd11.
In 1796, Peter Weiss (junior) moved from Hildmann to Preuss. Peter Weiss from Leichtling [sic] is recorded on the 1798 census of Preuss in Household No. Ps44.
Peter Weiss and his son Johannes are recorded on the 1811 census of Preuss in Household No. 44.
Peter Weiss and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Preuss in Household No. 39.
The death of Peter Weiss in 1847 is recorded on the 1850 census of Preuss in Household No. 47.
Johannes Preuss, the son of Peter Weiss, and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Preuss in Household No. 55.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Weiss came from the German region of Lothringen. The 1767 census records that Peter Weiss came from the French village of Finstreng [?].
- 1811 Preuss Census (Household No. 44).
- 1834 Preuss Census (Household No. 39).
- 1850 Preuss Census (Household No. 47).
- 1857 Preuss Census (Household No. 55).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 260.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Hd11, Ps44, Mv0855.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 101.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1868.
Brent Mai