Philipp Hartwig, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Philipp, age 15; Elisabeth, age 12; Johann, age 9; Anna, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard the ship named Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
They settled 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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