Georg Dresser, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Concordia under the command of Skipper Jakob Bauert.
Georg Dresser, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha are recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 35. He had arrived in Pfeifer on 15 June 1767.
Georg Dresser and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf68.
The parish register of Pfeifer records the death of Johann Georg Dresser on 7 April 1801.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Georg Dresser came from the German region of Hanau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Dresser family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Pf68.
- Parish register of Pfeifer.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 386.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2631.
Brent Mai