Sebastian Becker, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johann [Heinrich], age 18; Eva Katharina, age 15; Anna Margaretha, age 12; Elisabeth, age 6; Dorothea, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Mathias under the command of Skipper David Wollert.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dönhof on 18 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 56.
Heinrich Becker is recorded on the 1798 census of Dönhof in Household No. Dh087.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Sebastian Becker came from the German region of Stolberg.
- 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): Dh087.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 356.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1869.
Brent Mai
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