Georg Boxser, his wife Anna, and children (Anna, age 17½, Johann, age 12; Elisabeth, age 8; Katharina, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Der Junge Mattias under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Bangert on 1 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 8.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Bockser was a weaver while the 1767 census records that he was a farmer.
The 1767 census records that Georg Boxer came from the German village of Hasselborn in the region of Nassau-Usingen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 107.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3393.
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