Leitsinger*

Philipp Leitsinger, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard the pink Slon under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.

Philipp Leitsinger, a farmer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, son Johann Adam (age 8), and stepdaughters [surnames not recorded] (Margaretha, age 8; Katharina, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 1 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Straub in 1768. They had arrived in Leitsinger on 12 May 1767.

The 1767 census also records that Philipp Leitsinger is the mayor (Vorsteher) of the colony. It is after him that the colony was named.

The 1767 census records that Philipp Leitsinger came from the German village of Aschaffenburg in the Kurmainz region.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Leitsinger family among the Volga German colonies.