Friedrich Peter, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Concordia under the command of Skipper Jakob Bauert.
Friedrich Peter, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Magdalena, and daughter Margaretha (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schwab in Household No. 14. They had settled there on 8 July 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Friedrich Peter came from the German region of Friedeburg. The 1767 census records that Friedrich Peter came from the German village of Rodenbach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Peter family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 350.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 130.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2635.
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