Johann Mertz, a farmer, his wife Susanna, and children (Jurgen, age 16; Peter, age 14; Johann, age 12; Maria, age 10; Lorenz, age 8; Anna, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Widow Susanna Mertz and her children (Georg Philipp, age 16; Johan [sic] Peter, age 13; Johannes, age 11; Maria Elisabeth, age 9) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
This family has not been located on the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies.
(1) Philipp Mertz and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Reinwald in Household No. Rw24.
(2) Peter Mertz and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Reinwald in Household No. Rw01.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Mertz came from the German region of Friedberg.
- 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): Rw01, Rw24.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1693.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1930-1934.
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