Johann Blum and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a ship named Der Friede (Peace) under the command of Skipper Hans Karck.
Johann Blum and his wife Maria are recorded on a list of colonists being transferred from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Blun [sic], a carpenter (Zimmermann), and his wife Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Beauregard on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 50.
The 1767 census records that Johann Blun [sic] came from the German region of Göttingen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Blum family among the Volga German colonies.
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