[Johann] Gottfried Koch and his wife Christina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Gottfrid [sic] Koch and his wife Friederica are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Gottfried settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 7 June 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 1 along with his new wife Johanna.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Gottfried Koch was a miller while the 1767 census records that he was a Prussian Sergeant.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Gottfried Koch came from the German region of Dessau.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 139.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1400. - Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0748-0749.
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