Gottfried Lebrecht Kreutzer, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Urbach on 13 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 17 along with his new wife Helena, widow of Johannes Tress, and her children (Johann Philipp Tress, age 15; Angamisa, age 7).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Gottfried Lerecht Kreutzer was a rope maker while the 1767 census records that he was a farmer.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Gottfried Lebrecht Kreutzer came from the German region of Anhalt-Köthen. The 1767 census records that Lebrecht Kreutzer came from the German village of Neuem [?] in the Anhalt region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 422.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 274.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3294.
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