Gottfried Hoffmann, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and sons (Philipp, age 8; Michael, age 5¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Der Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Gottfried Hoffmann is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Seelmann on 15 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 30.
In 1795, Anton Hoffmann moved from Seelmann to Brabander.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Gottfried Hoffmann came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that Gottfried Hoffmann came from the German village of Pekach in the Würzburg.
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