There are two Seitz families who both arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 August 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann. Their relationship with each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Johann Heinrich Seitz, his wife Maria, and daughters (Anna, age 2¼; Elisabeth, age 1¼) arrived in Oranienbaum.
Johann Heinrich Seitz, a farmer, and his wife Maria are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 31.
(2) Johann Philipp Seitz and his wife Maria arrived in Oranienbaum.
The Oranienbaum passenger list does not record from where these Seitz families came. The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Seitz came from the German village of Makstein.
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- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 269.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7189, #7191.
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