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Best
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Johannes Best, a farmer, and his wife Anna are recorded on an appendix the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 99 along with a note that they settled in the colony of Schönchen in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Best came from the German village of Fürth in the Darmstadt region.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 370.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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