Thomas Hoffmann, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria Katharina, and son Johann Jakob (age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 June 1766 aboard the Russian boat named Святой Павел (Saint Paul) under the command of Midshipman Fyodor Sornev.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 95.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Thomas Hoffmann came from the German district of Isenburg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- 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): Nr084, Nr132.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 254.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2237.
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