Adolph Batt [sic], his wife Maria, and daughters (Margaretha, age 8; Elisabeth, age 7; Anna, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 26 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Die Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Adolf Pabst, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Anna, age 9; Elisabeth, age 7; Anna Dorothea, age 4; Ludwig, age 4-weeks) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 14. They had arrived in Paulskaya on 17 August 1767.
The widow and children of Adolf Pabst are recorded on the 1798 census of Kind in Household No. Kd23.
The 1767 census records that Adolf Pabst came from the German village of Großen Buseck.
- 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): 872.
- 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): Kd23.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 354.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7102.
Brent Mai