Philipp Hoff, a farmer, his wife Gertruda, and children (Katharina, age 6; Michael, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Drei Gebrüder (Three Brothers) under the command of Skipper Ludwig Münzenberg.
Philipp Hoff, a farmer, his wife Gertrude, and son Georg Adam (age ½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Hölzel in Household No. 40. They had settled in Hölzel on 11 September 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Hoff came from the German region of Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Philipp Hoff came from the German village of Salz in the Kurpfalz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hoff family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 732.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 119.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5860.
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