Johann Heinrich Günther, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Perle (The Pearl) under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Frank in 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 49 along with his new wife Anna Barbara.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Heinrich Günther came from the region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Enerhof in the Hessen-Darmstadt region.
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Brent Mai