Johann Philipp Hartung, son of Johann Christoff Hartung & Anna Eleonora Dönges, was baptized 23 April 1732 in Büdingen.
Philipp Hartung, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Philipp settled in the Volga German colony of Frank and is recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 13.
Johann Philipp married Anna Barbara Lapp, daughter of Christian Lapp & Anna Katharina Schlingeloff, who had been on board the same vessel between Rewal & Oranienbaum. She had been baptized on 15 June 1749 in the village of Pferdsbach, about 3 kilometers north of Büdingen. [See Lapp Family.]
Philipp & Barbara Hartung are recorded on the 1798 Census of Frank at Household No. Fk036. Descendants of this family later moved to the daughter colony of Brunnental.
Over the years, descendants of this family have used a variety of surname spellings including: Hardung, Hartung, and Harding.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Hartung came from the German region of Isenburg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 99, 101.
- 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): Fk036.
- Parish register of Büches.
- Parish register of Büdingen.
- Parish register of Hanau.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 421.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #473, #495.
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