Nikolaus Borger 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.
Nikolaus Berge [sic], a farmer, and his wife Eva are recorded on the 1767 census of Philippsfeld in Household No. 8. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.
In 1769, Nikolaus Borger and his family moved from Philippsfeld to Zürich.
The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Berge [sic] came from the German village of Küchen bei Waldkappel.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Borger family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 862.
- 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): Mv2283.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 405.
Brent Mai