Johann[es] Kaiser, his wife Katharina, and [step-]son Johann Georg [surname not recorded] (age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Sewald on 20 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 2 along with orphan Michael Hiltenberger (age 10). The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Kaiser and Hiltenberger families.
In 1795, Friedrich Peter Kaiser moved from Sewald to Brabander.
The 1798 census of Sewald records in Household No. Sd07 that Johannes Kaiser was in Merkel with his livestock.
Johannes Kaiser and his family moved from Brabander to Degott in 1831. They are recorded on the 1834 census of Degott in Household No. 20.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Kaiser was a teacher from the German region of Frankfurt am Main. The 1767 census records that he was a farmer from the German village of Heusenstamm.
- 1834 Degott Census (Household No. 20).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 429.
- 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): Bn34, Sd07, Mv2766.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 167.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3343.
Brent Mai