Georg Matthisen, a butcher (Fleischer), and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Johann Georg Mathiesen and two unnamed persons (in his immediate family) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Matthisen (age 26), a butcher (Fleischer), and his wife Katharina (age 30) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. 5. They had arrived in Stahl am Tarlyk on 13 August 1767.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Georg Matthisen came from the German town of Lübeck.
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