Johann Just Hartmann, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder. He was traveling with Anna Magdalena Hartmann, a single woman.
Johann Jost [sic] Hartmann and Anna Magdalena Hartmann are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Just Hartmann, a cooper (Böttcher), and his [new] wife Philippina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Househod No. 8.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
Anna Magdalena Hartmann has not been located on the 1767 census.
The 1767 census records that Johann Just Hartmann came from the German village of Königsberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hartmann family among the Volga German colonies.
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