Balthasar Höfling, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Georg Adam, age 5; Anna Maria, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.
Baltaser Höffling [sic], his wife Anna Maria, and son Georg Adam (age 6) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Balthasar Höfling, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and son (Georg Adam, age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Semenovka in Household No. 13. They had settled there on 24 July 1767.
Balthasar Höfling and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Semenovka in Household No. Se32.
Georg Adam Höfling and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Göbel in Household No. Gb05.
The 1767 census records that Balthasar Höfling came from the German village of Langenprozelten in the Kurmainz region.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Balthasar Höfling came from the German region of Würzburg.
- 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): Gb05, Se32.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 180.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6276.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8502-8504.
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