Johann Franz, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Franz Nikolaus Schröder.
Johann Frantz is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Gottfried Franz, a farmer, and his [new] wife Katharina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 18. Because they are recorded on the 1767 census amongst others who settled in the Volga German colony of Zürich, Johann Gottfried Franz is believed to be the father of Mattias Franz who is recorded on the 1798 census of Zürich in Household No. Zr50.
The 1767 census records that Johann Gottfried Franz came from the German village of Hildburghausen.
- 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): Zr50.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 198.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6814.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4197.
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