Karl Meisner, a farmer, his wife Anna, daughters (Maria, age 16¼; Anna, age 11; Elisabeth, age ½), and mother-in-law Elisabeth Dorothea [surname not recorded] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Börse von Lübeck under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Markau.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Jost on 5 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 66.
The 1767 census records that Karl Meisner came from the German village of Lebbin in Brandenburg.
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- 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): Jo28.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 210.
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Brent Mai