Peter Gottbehüt, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Johann, age 17; Anna, age 10; Kaspar, age 5; Maria, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Peter Gottbehüt, his wife Maria, and daughter Anna (age 10) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Peter Gottbehüt, a linen weaver (Leineweber), his wife Maria, and daughter Maria (age 12) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 13.
The 1767 census records that Peter Gottbehüt came from the German village of Steinig [?] in the Fulda region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 197.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4479.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4337.
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