Johann Hoffmann, a weaver, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Johann Hoffmann and his wife Anna are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Anna died en route.
Because he is traveling with other families who are recorded on appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard, the above Johann Hoffmann is believed to be the Johann Martin Hoffmann, a linen weaver (Leineweber), who is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 57 along with his [new] wife Dorothea and stepdaughter, Anna Margaretha Wagner (age 4).
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Hoffmann came from the German region of Fulda. The 1767 census records that Johann Martin Hoffmann came from the German village of Borg [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hoffmann family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 207.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4471.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4323-4324.
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