Peter Schmidt, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Peter Schmidt died and it is believed that his widow remarried to Andreas Klapp.
Peter Schmidt (age 1½) is recorded on the 1767 census of Messer in Household No. 61 along with his stepfather Andreas Klapp. They had arrived in Messer on 18 June 1767.
Peter Schmidt, son of the deceased Peter Schmidt, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Messer in Household No. Ms09 along with his stepfather Andreas Klapp.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Schmidt came from the German region of Isenburg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 247.
- 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): Ms09.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 146.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1763.
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