[Franz] Joseph Brandt, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
Frantz Brandt is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Susannental on 3 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 37.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Joseph Brandt was a farmer from the German region of Würzburg while the 1767 census records that Franz Joseph Brandt was a merchant (Kaufmann) from the German village of Lengfurt in the Würzburg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Brandt family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 561.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 267.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4420.
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