Johann Dehler, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Henrietta, age 16; Katharina, age 13; Appolonia, age 8; Jakob, age 5; Maria, age ½) 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.
Johann Dehler, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and daughters (Henrietta, age 18; Katharina, age 15; Apollonia, age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dehler in Household No. 1 along with a note that Johann Dehler is the colony's mayor (Vorsteher). They had settled in Dehler on 1 July 1767.
It is after Johann Dehler that the colony of Dehler received its name.
The 1767 census records that Johann Dehler is from the German village of Wernborn in the region of Kurmainz.
- 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): Dl01.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 267.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3351.
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