Jakob Muntz, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Svyatoi Pavel (St. Paul) under the command of the Lieutenant Fyedor Sornev.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Sewald on 20 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 12.
In 1792, Jakob Muntz and his family moved from Sewald to Hölzel.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Muntz was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a weaver (Weber).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Muntz came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that he came from the village of Mittelstadt.
- 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): Mv2762.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 169.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2710.
Brent Mai