Johann Nicolaus Mathias (age 25), a tiler (Ziegler), recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. He is recorded on the Worms list as the future son-in-law (Zukünftiger Tochtermann) of Johann Peter Roth with whom he was traveling. Johann Peter Roth's daughter Catharina (age 17) was evidently Johann Nicolaus Mathias's intended wife. They had all arrived in Worms on 22 September 1765.
Nikolaus Matthias, a farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Schuck in 18 July 1766. He and his wife Klara are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 29.
The 1765 Worms list records that Johann Nicolaus Mathias came from the German village of Ohlsperg [Olsberg]. The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Matthias came from the German village of Bitsch in the Lothringen region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Matthias family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 116.
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