Widower Anton Diehl and his children (Anna, age 13; Jakob, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Janson.
Anthon Diehl and his children (Anna Catharina, age 13; Jacob, age 9) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Widower Anton Diehl, a farmer, and his children (Anna, age 16; Jakob, age 12) are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (Household No. 79) appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Zug in 1768.
In 1784, Jakob Diehl and his family moved from Luzern to Zug.
The Beauregard list records that Anton Diehl came from the German village of Neustadt in the Mainz region.
- 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): Zg03, Zg12, Mv1609.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 365.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3923.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5719-5721.
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