David Roth, a farmer, his wife Eleonora, and son Johann Michael (age 5½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
David Roth, a farmer, his wife Lora [sic], and sons (Johann Michael, age 6; Johann Philipp, age 6-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kraft in Household No. 52. They had arrived in Kraft on 18 August 1767.
David Roth & Anna Eleonora Möbus had been married in 1765 in Büdingen, so this Johann Michael is not their son. He is believed to be Johann Michael Guttmann, a child from an earlier marriage of Anna Eleonora Möbus. [See Roth Family.]
In 1788, Michael Guttmann moved from Kraft to Messer.
Michael Gutmann from Kraft is recorded on the 1798 census of Messer in Household No. Ms72.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 636.
- 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): Ms72, Mv1361.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 407.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5101.
Brent Mai