Viet Spiess, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Weith Spiess is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Viet Spiess, a farmer, and his [new] wife Rosina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 34 along with orphan Barbara Meier (age 9). The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Spiess and Meier families.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Viet Spiess came from the German region of Bayreuth.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Spiess family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 329.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4635.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5856.
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