Friedrich Mohn, a barber (Friseur), his wife Maria Agnes, and daughter Maria Katharina (age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Drei Gebrüder (Three Brothers) under the command of Skipper Ludwig Münzenberg.
Johann Friedrich Merk [sic], a surgeon (Feldscher), his wife Maria Agnessia, and daughter Maria Katharina (age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Jost in Household No. 52. They had settled there on 19 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Friedrich Mohn came from the German region of Württemberg [sic]. The 1767 census records that Johann Friedrich Merk [sic] came from the German village of Münsingen in the region of Schwaben (Swabia).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Mohn family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 730.
- Oranienbaum passenger list (#5839) [not included in the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 207.
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