There are two Hill families from Schaffhausen. Their relationship to each other, if any, requires further research.
(1) Nicolaus Gill [sic] & Dorothea Elis. Albers were married on 4 August 1766 in St. Mary's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Nikolaus Gille [sic] and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Nicolaus Gille [sic] and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Nikolaus Hill, a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 39.
Nikolaus Hill from Schaffhausen and his stepson Johann Helbrecht are recorded on the 1798 census of Bettinger in Household No. Bt17.
The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Hill came from the German village of Snetning [?].
(2) In 1785, Herrmann Hill and his family moved from Schaffhausen to the Caucasus.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 829.
- 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): Bt17, Mv2537.
- Mai, Brent Alan, trans. & ed. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga: 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): #2198-2199.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #202.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6644 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 359.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4069-4070.
Brent Mai