Adam Speier, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Johann Adam Speier, a farmer, and his wife Anna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 9.
They are recorded as the baptismal sponsors of Johann Adam Dillmann, son of Johann Balthasar Dillmann & Anna Maria Wilg, who was baptized 7 July 1766 in the Lutheran Cathedral (Evangelische Kirche Dom) in Lübeck.
The Speier family may have settled in the colony of Kind along with the Dillmann family.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Adam Speier came from the German region of Erbach. The 1767 census records that Johann Adam Speier came from the German village of Kaderhein in the region of Erbach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Speier 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): 672.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) : Origins and Destinations (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #1306.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 354.
Brent Mai