Johannes Nagelschmidt, a farmer, his wife Anna, and sons (Johann, age 11; Heinrich, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronstadt under the command of Lieutenant Samuel Gibbs.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Shcherbakovka on 18 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 45.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johannes Nagelschmidt came from the German region of Riedesel. The 1767 census records that Johannes Nagelschmidt came from the German village of Steinhausen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Nagelschmidt family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 381.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 256.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2903.
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