Anton Herdt, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax. They settled in the Volga German colony of Messer on 18 June 1767.
Anton Hardt, a farmer, and his wife are recorded in Messer on the 1767 census in Household No. 58.
Widower Anton Hardt and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Messer in Household No. Ms02.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Anton Herdt came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 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): Ms02.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 145.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1760.
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