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.
He immigrated to Russia, arriving from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the 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.
The 1767 census records that Philipp Faust came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1834 Kutter Census (Households No. 104, 128).
- 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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