Servant Friedrich Fritzhilt [sic] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair. along with the Johann Seib family.
Servant Fritz Hilt (age 20) is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with the Johannes Seib family.
Friedrich Diehl [sic] (age 20) is recorded on the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 43 along with the Johannes Sennt [sic] family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Diehl [should be Hilt] and Sennt [should be Seib] families. They had settled in Ober-Monjou on 7 June 1767.
In 1778, Friedrich Hilt moved from Ober-Monjou to Mariental.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Friedrich Hilt came from the German region of Frankenstein. The 1767 census does not record from where Friedrich Diehl came.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 209.
- 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): Mt81, Mv2047.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 299.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1440.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1399.
Brent Mai