Balthasar Niesser, a farmer, his wife, Anna, sons (Johann, age 3; Michael, age 1), and [step-]son Heinrich [Milchen] (age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Der Jäger under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 15 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 62 along with stepson Heinrich Milchen (age 10).
In 1792, Theodorus Neuser moved from Seelmann to Leitsinger.
In 1793, Johannes Neuser moved from Seelmann to Hölzel. Johann Niesser is recorded on the 1798 census of Hölzel in Household No. Hz27.
Johann Dietrich Niesser is recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk25.
The 1767 census records that Balthasar Niesser came from the village of Remich in Luxembourg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- 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): Hz27, Nk25, Mv2718, Mv2719.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 2005): 423.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2170.
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