Dietrich (Kind)

Johann Dietrich, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Jacob Dittrich and his wife Anna Elisabeth are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Jakob Dietrich, a farmer, his wife Anna, and son Johann (age 9-months) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 15 along with orphan Karolina Dorothea Hillenbach (age 11). They had settled there on 3 August 1767. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Dietrich and Hillenbach families.

In 1780, Jakob Dietrich was exiled according to the Movement Tables appended to the 1798 census of Kind (Mv1284). The details of this "exile" are recorded in the records of the Kontora (Office of Immigrant Oversight). Dietrich's first wife died and he remarried to Maria Ursula Langolf, the widow of Philipp Lieber. Dietrich claimed that she was not adequately caring for the children that he had had with this first wife. They quarreled often, and he tried to kill her. He was not successful, and was apprehended and beaten. He was tried, found guilty of attempted murder, and sentenced to the penal institution in Orenberg for the rest of this life.

Jakob Dietrich's surviving wife along with his three sons (by his first wife) moved to Zürich and she remarried there to Abraham Henze. They are recorded on the 1798 census of Zürich in Household No. Zr06 along with a note that Johann Friedrich Dietrich was working in Nieder-Monjou and Johann Wilhelm Dietrich was working in Näb.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Dietrich came from the German region of Runkel.