Nathaniel [sic] Hildmann, a blacksmith (Schmied), his wife Ottilia, and children (Johann, age 16; Anna Katharina, age 10¼) arrived from Lübeck on 14 August 1766 aboard a 2-masted merchant ship named Die Jungfer Frederika (The Maiden Frederika) under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm.
Johann Ad. Hiltmann [sic], his wife Utilia [sic], and children (Johannes, age 17; Anna Catrina, age 14) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Adam Hildmann, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Hildmann on 20 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 44 along with Johann Adam's new wife Katharina.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that the Hildmann family came from the German region of Fulda.
- 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): 718.
- 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): Hd22.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 107.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5758.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2574-2577.
Brent Mai