Jakob Kreitlein [sic], a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and sons (Johann Heinrich Zacharias, age 3½; Johann Anton, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Gilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
Jakob Kretlein, a miller (Müller), his wife Maria Elisabeth, and sons (Johann Heinrich, age 5; Johann Heinrich Samuel, age 3-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Straub in Household No. 21. They had settled there on 12 May 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Kreitlein [sic] came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Jakob Kretlein came from the German village of Lorsbach in the Darmstadt region.
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Brent Mai