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Obetz*

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Obetz*
Settled in the Following Colonies: 
Jost
Discussion & Documentation: 

Johann Gottlieb Obetz, a weaver, his wife Johann Sophia, and children (Johann Christian, age 17; Bernhard Wilhelm, age 12; Maria Elisabeth, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.

The surviving son, Johann, settled in the Volga German colony of Jost on 16 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 78.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Gottlieb Obetz came from the German region of Anhalt Dessau.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources: 

- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 213.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3293.

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Brent Mai

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