Jakob Müller, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 June 1766 aboard a boat named Святая Екатерина (St. Catherine) under the command of Midshipman Alexander Trusov along with siblings (Johann [Heinrich], age 19; Anna, age 14).
They settled in the Volga German colony of Schwed on 1 July 1767 where Johann and his family are recorded in Household No. 27 and Johann Heinrich and his new wife Anna Elisabeth are recorded in Household No. 28.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that this Müller family came from the region of Tischlauch [Ticino?]. The 1767 census records that they came from the village of Lugano.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 181.
- 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): Sw03, Sw15, Sw23.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 146, 147.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1193.
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