Kalstadt
Adam Kolstadt [sic], his wife Maria, and children (Maria, age 11; Peter, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Franz Nikolaus Schröder.
Adam Kolstadt, his wife Maria, and children (Maria, age 11; Peter, age 9) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Adam Kalstadt [sic], a blacksmith (Schmied), and his wife Maria are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 26 along with a note that they settled in the colony of Biberstein in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Adam Kalstadt came from the German village of Schwelm in the Westfalen region.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 200.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6828.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4209-4212.
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