Heinrich Müller, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughters (Katharina, age 20; Anna, age 15) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Heinrich Müller, his wife Elisabetha, and daughter Cathar. Elisabeth (age 20) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Heinrich Müller (age 46), a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Elisabeth (age 43) are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census along with a note that they settled in the colony of Wittmann in 1768.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Müller came from the German region of Nassau. The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Müller came from the German village of Kerzenheim.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Müller family among the Volga German colonies.
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