An article by Wilhelm Funk records the following going to Russia:
Martin Kolb, a farmer (Bauersmann), son of the deceased Martin Kolb, a day laborer (Taglöhner) in Rapoldshofen near Neustadt on the Aisch, and Ursula Bittenberger, daughter of the deceased Conrad Bittenberger, a farmer (Beständner) in Guttenstädten, both Lutheran, were married on 7 May 1766 in the Lutheran Church in Wöhrd.
Martin Kolb, a farmer, and his wife Ursula arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the snow-brig Frei Gebruder under the command of Skipper Minzberger.
Martin Kolb, his wife Ursula, and new-born daughter Eva are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Laub on 15 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 56.
The 1767 census records that Martin Kolb came from the German village of Rappoldshofen bei Neustadt an der Aisch in the region of Bayreuth.
- Funk, Wilhelm. "Deutsche a Is russische Colonisten: ausgezogen aus dem Wöhrder Traubuch 1766/67." Blätter für fränkische Familienkunde, 1:3 (1926): 101-107.
- 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): Lb10.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #804.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 33.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5830.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6262-6264.
Brent Mai