Jakob Göter [sic], his wife Margaretha, and son Johann (age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Jacob Götzer [sic], his wife Margaretha, and son Joh. Friedrich (age ½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that his son Joh. Friedrich died in route.
Jakob Götz and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schönchen in Household No. Sn08.
The death of Jakob Götz in 1816 is recorded on the 1834 census of Schönchen in Household No. 92.
The Oranienbaum passenger list does not record from where Jakob Göter [sic] came.
- 1834 Schönchen Census (Household No. 92).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 831.
- 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): Sn08, Sn10.
- Oranienbaum passenger list: #6667 [not included in the Kuhlberg published by Igor Plehve].
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3759-3761.
Brent Mai