Andreas Moritz, a farmer, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Johann Andreas Moritz is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Andreas Moritz, cloth maker (Tuchmacher), and his wife Dorothea arrived in the Volga German colon of Stahl am Tarlyk on 13 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 16.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Moritz came from the German region of Holstein. The 1767 census records that Andreas Moritz came from the German village of Neumünster in the Holstein region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Moritz family among the Volga German colonies.
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