Konrad Macht, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and sons (Johann Michael, age 5½; Johann, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pink named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Konrad Macht, a farmer, his wife Katharina Wisgemann [?], and sons (Michael, age 7; Johannes, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 60. They had settled in Köhler on 21 August 1767.
Maria Katharina Macht, widow of Konrad Macht, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Köhler in Household No. Kl49.
Michael Macht and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Köhler in Household No. Kl82.
Peter Macht and his family arrived in North America from Leichtling in 1901.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Macht came from the German region of Fulda. The 1767 census records that Konrad Macht came from the German village of Brückenau in the Fulda region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 488.
- 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): Kl49, Kl82.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 374.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3820.
Brent Mai