Philipp Bender, a farmer, his wife Maria, children (Elisabeth, age 15; Anna, age 12; Andreas, age 10¼; Philipp, age 8; Katharina, age 3), and servant Katharina (age 19, surname not recorded) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Philipp Bender, his wife Maria Dorothea, children (Maria, age 12; Philipp, age 7; Elisabeth, age 5; Catharina, age 3, died en route), and servant Katharina [Eichhorn] (age 20) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They are recorded on the list of Beauregard recruits that accompanies the 1767 census in Household No. 36 along with a note that they relocated to the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou in 1768.
Daughter Maria Dorzweiler née Bender is recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 161.
In 1790, Philipp Bender moved from Ober-Monjou to Dehler.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Bender came from the German region of Bassenheim. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Wernborn. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Maria Dorzweiler née Bender came from the German village of Wernborn near Usinger.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 161).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 687.
- 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): Dl20, Mv2087.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 356.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5462.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6970-6976.
Brent Mai