The lists of the recruiter Johann Facius records that Phillip Faust, age 20, came from Wolferborn.
Johann Philipp Faust, son of Johannes & Anna Elisabeth Faust, was baptized on 24 January 1746.
Philipp Faust, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
Philipp Faust, a farmer, his [new] wife Gertrude, his mother-in-law Katharina Elisabeth [surname not recorded] (age 54), and his sister-in-law Anna Maria [surname not recorded] (age 14) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kutter in Household No. 29. They had arrived in Kutter on 8 July 1767.
Widow Gertrude Faust and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kutter in Household No. Kt57.
Brothers Johann Georg Faust & Johannes Faust are recorded on the 1834 census of Kutter in Household No. 104 along with a note that Johann Georg Faust had relocated to the colony of Biberstein.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Philipp Faust came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1834 Kutter Census (Households No. 104, 128).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 415.
- List of those recruited by Johann Facius from 13 November 1765 to 18 February 1766.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Kt57.
- Parish register of Wolferborn.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 483.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3232.
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