Friedrich Vogt, a potter (Töpfer), his wife Maria, and daughter Dorothea (age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Friderich Focht [sic] and his wife Maria are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Jakob Vogt, a potter (Töpfer), and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on the 1767 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. 41. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.
In 1774, Friedrich Vogt and his wife moved from Orlovskaya to Katharinenstadt.
Jakob Vogt and his wife Maria Elisabeth are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 60 along with a note that they are living with Johann Mai. A later note records that they moved to Orenburg in 1782.
In 1787, Friedrich Vogt and his wife moved from Katharinenstadt to the Caucasus where he died. His widow remarried a man in Paulskaya.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Friedrich Vogt came from the German region of Mecklenburg. The 1767 census records that Jakob Vogt came from the German village of Staßfurt. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Jakob Vogt came from the Untermarkt area of Straßburg and that his wife came from the Untermarkt area of Liegen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Vogt family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 60).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 219.
- 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): Mv1190, Mv2132.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 320.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1530.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4024-4025.
Brent Mai