Adam Dietz, a farmer, and his wife Maria Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 17 July 1766 aboard a pink named Lev (Lion) under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov.
Adam Dietz, a farmer, his wife Maria Anna, and daughter Anna Maria (age 9-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Hildmann in Household No. 39. They had settled there on 18 August 1767.
The children of daughter Anna Maria Dietz are believed to be recorded on the 1798 census of Hildmann in Household No. Hd15.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Adam Dietz came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that he came from the German region of Dieburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Dietz family among the Volga German colonies.
[Some researchers have translated this surname as Seitz.]
- 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): 327.
- 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): Hd15.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 106.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2431.
Brent Mai