Johann Hermann Gräbe, his wife Anna, and sons (Johann, age 17; Johann [again], age 13) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 26 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Die Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Johann Hermann Grebe, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and sons (Kaspar, age 18; Melchior, age 15) is recorded on the 1767 census of Philippsfeld in Household No. 31 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Zürich in 1768. [The movement tables that accompany the 1798 census record that Johann Herrmann [Grebe] relocated from Philippsfeld to Zürich in 1769.]
Kaspar Grebe and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Zürich in Household No. Zr45.
Melchior Grebe and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Zürich in Household No. Zr35.
Johann Christoph Grebe and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Zürich in Household No. 106.
Martin Grebe and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Zürich in Household No. 129.
The 1767 census records that Johann Hermann Grebe came from the German village of Altenmoor.
- 1834 Zürich Census (Households No. 106, 129).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 859.
- 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): Zr35, Zr45, Mv2301.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 410.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6972.
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