Heinrich Otzen, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Heinrich Altzen [sic] is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Heinrich Otzen, a single farmer, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 79 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Meinhard in 1768.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Otzen came from the German region of Holstein. The 1767 census records that he came from England.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Otzen family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 213.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4489.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4336.
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