Sebastian Held [sic], a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.
Sebastian Heil and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Sebastian died en route.
It is not known in which colony the widow Heil settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Sebastian Held [?] came from the German region of Hanau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Heil family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4293.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5035-5036.
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