Johann Pfeifer, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and sons (Johann, age 19¼; Lukas, age 18½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a galliot named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper David Wohlert.
Widow Anna Margaretha Pfeifer, a farmer's wife, and her sons (Johannes, age 19; Johann Lukas, age 18) arrived in the Volga German colony of Schwed on 1 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 29 along with a note that they relocated in 1768 to the colony of Messer.
Jakob Pfeifer, however, is recorded on the 1798 census of Schwed in Household No. Sw25.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Pfeifer came from the German region of Riedesel. The 1767 census records that Anna Margaretha Pfeifer came from the German village of Lauterbach.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 264.
- 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): Sw25.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 147.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1902.
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