Adam Haak, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and children (Konrad, age 6; Martha, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Adam Hack [sic], his wife Margretha [sic], and children (Conradt [sic], age 6; Margretha [sic], age 1½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that father Adam and daughter Margretha died in route.
Widow Margretha Hack remarried to Franz Kaiser with whom they were travelling from Oranienbaum to Saratov.
Konrad Haak (age 7) is recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census in Household No. 43 as the stepson of Franz Kaiser.
Konrad Haak and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Luzern in Household No. Lz36.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Adam Haak came from the German region of Bamberg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Lz36.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 358.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4628.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5847-5850.
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