Johann Kapp, a single farmer, arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 April 1766 aboard a two-masted merchant ship named Der Kleine Andreas (The Little Andrew) under the command of Skipper Jacob Jensen.
Johannes Kapp, a farmer, and his wife Anna Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Schwed on 12 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 4.
Konrad Kapp and his wife Anna Katharina Koslowski are recorded on the 1798 census of Schwed in Household No. Sw16.
The death of Konrad Kapp in 1808 is recorded on the 1811 census of Schwed in Household No. 16.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Kapp came from the German region of Dresden. The 1767 census records that Johannes Kapp came from the German village of Stolp in the region of Prussia.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kapp family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1811 Schwed Census (Household No. 16).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 47.
- 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): Sw16.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 140.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #22.
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