Philipp Hoffmann, a farmer, his wife Maria, daughter Katharina (age 3), and brother-in-law Valentin [surname not recorded] (age 20) 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.
Philipp Hoffmann (age 36), a farmer, his wife Maria Barbara (age 30), and daughter Katharina (age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 150. They had arrived in Warenburg on 12 May 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Hoffmann came from the German region of Zweibrücken. The 1767 census records that Philipp Hoffmann came from the German village of Niederhausen in the Zweibrücken region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hoffmann family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 295.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 344.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2160.
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