Balthasar Boos, a farmer, his wife Eva, sons (Adam, age 17¼; Kilian, age 12; Tobias, age 6; Heinrich, age 2), and [step-]son Johann Georg [Flach] (age 19) 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.
Balthasar Boos, a farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 129 along with his wife Katharina, children by his first wife (Johann Adam, age 17; Philipp Kilian, age 13; Johann Tobias, age 7), and stepson Johann Georg Flach (age 19).
Johann Georg Flach and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Warenburg in Household No. Wr070 along with a note that he is working in Laub.
The 1767 census does not record from where Johann Georg Flach came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Flach family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 284.
- 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): Wr070.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 341.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2073.
Brent Mai