Johann Wilhelm Müller, a hunter (Jäger) from Pinnstadt, & Dorothea Keÿser from Eckenshausen were married on 17 May 1766 in Pastor Möllraht's house in Lübeck. The marriage is recorded in the parish register of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Johann Müller, a farmer, and his wife Dorothea arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Johann Wilhelm Müller, a hunter (Jäger), his wife Dorothea, and son Jakob (age 2-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 20. They had settled there on 10 June 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Müller came from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that Johann Wilhelm Müller came from the German village of Friburg in the duchy of Riesenburg.
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Brent Mai