Joseph Britt, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Maria Sophia under the command of Skipper Johann Bauert.
Joseph Barret [sic], a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and son Peter Joseph (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. 65. They had settled there on 13 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Joseph Britt came from the region of Alsace. The 1767 census records that Joseph Barret [sic] came from the French region of Licques [?].
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 342.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 218.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2553.
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