Johann Philipp Hartwig, son of Johann Philipp Hartwig & Anna Barbara Dreÿling, was born 2 November 1728 in Nauheim and was baptized there on 7 November 1728.
Johann Philipp Hartwig married on 30 April 1749 in Nauheim to Anna Elisabeth Crecelius, daughter of Johann Georg Crecelius & Anna Elisabeth Hofmann.
The baptisms of the following children born to Johann Philipp Hartwig & Anna Elisabeth Crecelius are recorded in the parish register of Nauheim: (1) Johann Philipp, baptized 16 May 1752; (2) Elisabeth Catharina, baptized 25 June 1755; (3) Johannes, baptized 9 August 1758; (4) Philipp Adam, baptized 23 August 1761, died 18 December 1761; and (5) Anna Catharina, baptized 2 July 1764.
Philipp Hartwig, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Philipp, age 15¼; Elisabeth, age 12; Johann, age 9; Anna, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Phillipp Hardtwig [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Straub on 12 July 1767. Philipp Hartwig, a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and children (Johann Philipp, age 16; Johannes, age 10; Anna Dorothea, age 3-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Straub in Household No. 34.
The descendants of Philipp Hartwig (junior) are recorded on the 1798 census of Warenburg in Households No. Wr031 & Wr035.
Johannes Hartwig and his sons (Philipp Heinrich, age 3; Johannes, age 3-months) are recorded on the 1811 census of Straub in Household No. 8 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Neu-Straub [year not recorded].
Johannes Hartwig and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Straub in Household No. 1.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Hartwig came from the German region of Usingen. The 1767 census records that Philipp Hartwig came from the German village of Nauheim in the region of Nassau-Usingen.
- 1811 Straub Census (Household No. 6).
- 1834 Neu-Straub Census (Household No. 1).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 287-288.
- 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): Sr08, Wr031, Wr035.
- Parish register of Nauheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 237.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2094.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1719.
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