Adam Heil, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and son Johann (age 16½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Joh. Adam Heil, his wife Catharina, and son Johannes (age 18) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johannes Heil, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and son Johann (age 18) are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census along with a note that they settled in the Volga German colony of Luzern in 1768.
Johann Heil and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Luzern in Household No. Lz05.
The death of Johannes Heil in 1819 is recorded on the 1834 census of Luzern in Household No. 37.
Johannes Heil, grandson of Johannes Heil, is recorded on the 1834 census of Luzern in Household No. 37 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Ober-Monjou.
Johannes Heil from Luzern is recorded on the 1834 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 99 along with a note that he had arrived in Ober-Monjou from Luzern in 1834.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Adam Heil came from the German region of Nassau. The 1767 census records that Johannes Heil came from the German village of Merzhausen [?].
- 1834 Luzern Census (Household No. 37).
- 1834 Ober-Monjou Census (Household No. 99).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 690.
- 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): Lz05.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 365.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5483.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3747-3749.
Brent Mai