Peter Kuntz, his wife Anna, and children (Heinrich, age 15; Anna, age 12; Maria, age 10¼; Michael, age 6; Jakob, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Peter Kuns [sic], his wife Anna, and children (Heinrich, age 15; Anna Eva, age 12; Anna Maria, age 10¼; Michael, age 6; Jacobus, age 4) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that son Jacobus died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou on 3 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 58.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Kuntz was a farmer from the German region of Trier. The 1767 census records that he was a cobbler (Schuhmacher) from the German village of Arfurt in the Trier region.
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Brent Mai