Peter Friedrichs, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Nikolaus, age 16¼; Johannes, age 15) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 27 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Слон (Slon - Elephant in Russian) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Surviving son Nikolaus (age 17) is recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 26 along with Johannes Pilen and his family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Pilen and Friedrichs families.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Friedrichs came from the German region of Trier.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Friedrichs family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 113.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 68.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #601.
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