Johann Georg Schwartz, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johannes, age 16¼; Katharina, age 12; Heinrich, age 6; Dorothea, age 6; Elisabeth, age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a ship named Der Friede (Peace) under the command of Skipper Hans Karck.
Johannes Schwartz, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johannes, age 16; Catharina, age 12; Heinrich, age 6; Dorothea, age 6; Elisabeth, age 3) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that the father Johannes, along with sons Johannes & Heinrich and daughters Dorothea & Elisabeth died en route.
It is not known in which colony the mother Elisabeth and daughter Katharina settled.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schwartz family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 871.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #7090.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3916-3922.
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