Kaspar Grass, a weaver, his wife Anna, and sons (Johann, age 20; Friedrich, age 12) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Börse von Lübeck under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Markau.
Johann Kaspar Grass, a weaver (Weber), his wife Ottilia, and sons (Johann Georg, age 20; Johann Friedrich, age 17) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. 56.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Kaspar Grass came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that Johann Kaspar Grass came from the German village of Suhl in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).
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