Johannes Wagner, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Elisabeth, and his [step-]son Johannes [Bechter] (age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Der Jäger under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Johannes Bechter (age 11) is recorded on the 1767 census of Preuss in Household No. 52 along with his stepfather Johannes Wagner.
The 1767 census does not record from where Johannes Bechter came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Bechter family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 421.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2168.
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