Johann Georg Hipner [sic], a single miller (Müller), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 August 1766 aboard the ship named Nordstern (North Star) under the command of Skipper Detlev Behling.
Johann Georg Hepfner, a single miller (Müller), settled in the Volga German colony of Laub on 15 September 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 65.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Georg Hipner [sic] came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Hepfner came from the German village Zwickau in the Sachsen (Saxony) region.
There are no known surviving male line of this Hepfner family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 663.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 36.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5265 (p.338).
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