Johann Just Karpf [sic], a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard the Russian pink Vologda under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Müller on 16 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 22.
Johann Heinrich Karb and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Müller in Household No. Ml17.
[Johann] Heinrich Karb and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Müller in Household No. 19.
[Johann] Heinrich Karb and his family are recorded on the 1850 census of Müller in Household No. 33.
[Johann] Heinrich Karb and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Müller in Household No. 34.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Just Karpf [sic] came from the German region of Hohensolms. The 1767 census records that Johann Just Karpf came from the German village of Ober-Bessingen.
- 1834 Müller Census (Household No. 19).
- 1850 Müller Census (Households No. 33, 34).
- 1857 Müller Census (Households No. 34, 35).
- 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): Ml17.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 180.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4873.
Brent Mai