Heinrich Hehn, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughter Maria (age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard a ship named Die Perle under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.
Heinrich Hehn, a farmer, and his wife settled in the Volga German colony of Moor on 15 January 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 16 along with his stepchildren Johann David Hubert & Johann Wilhelm Hubert.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Hehn came from the German region of Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Heinrich Hehn came from the German region of Kurpfalz.
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- 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): Mo56.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 159.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #998.
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