Gottlieb Herbst, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.
He married Anna Katharina Lehmann who died and he remarried to Anna Katharina. They settled in the Volga German colony of Urbach on 13 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 5 along with his stepson, David Lehmann.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Gottlieb Herbst was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a craftsman (Handwerker).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Gottlieb Herbst came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that Gottfried [sic] Herbst came from the German village of Sangerhausen in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Herbst family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 441.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 270.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3276.
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