Friedrich Bühl, his wife Maria, and children (Katharina, age 6; Anna, age 4; Maria, age 2; Just, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 26 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Die Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Friedrich Bühl, a farmer, his wife Maria, and daughters (Katharina, age 8; Margaretha, age 6; Elisabeth, age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 44. They had settled there on 23 July 1767.
In 1784, Michael Biehl moved from Ober-Monjou to Zug.
The 1767 census records that Friedrich Bühl came from the German village of Dorheim. [There are several villages named Dorheim; it is assumed to be the one in Kreis Wetterau, because so many Volga German families that came from that area.]
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 865.
- 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): Om70, Zg20, Mv2071.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 299.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7027.
Brent Mai