Jakob Werth, a farmer, and his wife Barbara arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit (Vigilance) under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.
Jakob Werth (age 26), a farmer, his wife Barbara Elisabeth (age 22), and daughter Anna Katharina (age ¼) are recorded on the 1767 census of Messer in Household No. 28. They had arrived in Messer on 18 June 1767.
Jakob Werth and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Messer in Household No. Ms38.
In 1790, Johannes Werth moved from Messer to Degott.
Johannes Werth from Messer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Degott in Household No. Dg02.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Jakob Werth came from the German region of Isenburg.
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- 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): Dg02, Ms38, Mv1720.
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