Anton Becker [sic], a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, children (Anna, age 12; Johann, age 10¼), and brother-in-law Konrad [surname not recorded] (age 22), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a barque named Fortitudo (Fortitude) under the command of Skipper John Scott.
Anton Borger, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Anna Margaretha, age 15; Johannes, age 14) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kraft in Household No. 24. They had settled in Kraft on 18 August 1767.
In 1788, Heinrich Becker [sic] moved from Kraft to Stephan. He does not appear on the 1798 census of Stephan.
Johannes Borger's widow [Louisa Seifert] remarried to Johannes Reichert and is recorded on the 1798 census in Household No. Kf22 along with her Borger children (Maria Elisabeth, age 27; Anna Rosina, age 23; Johann Adam, age 16; Johann Heinrich, age 12). [Some translations have incorrectly recorded this surname as Berger.]
[Johann] Adam Borger and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Kraft in Household No. 45 along with his stepbrother Heinrich Wilhelm Reichert.
Heinrich Wilhelm Borger from Kraft and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Friedenberg.
The 1767 census records that Anton Becker [sic] came from the German village of Merlau in the Darmstadt region.
- 1834 Kraft Census (Household No. 45).
- 1857 Friedenberg Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 483.
- 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): Kf22, Mv1362.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 399.
Brent Mai