Johann Pfeifer, a miller (Müller), his wife Maria, and children (Katharina, age 13; Johann [Philipp], age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the ship Die Jungfer Friederika under the command of Skipper Christian Korsholm.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 161.
[a] [Johann] Philipp Pfeifer, his family, and his brother [b] Georg Wilhelm are recorded on the 1798 census of Warenburg in Household No. Wr041 along with a note that Georg Wilhelm is working in Orlovskaya.
[a] Philipp Pfeifer and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Warenburg in Household No. 41.
[b] Georg Wilhelm Pfeifer is recorded on the 1811 census of Warenburg in Household No. 41 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Orlovskaya in 1801.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Pfeifer came from the German village of Gernsheim. The 1767 census records that Johann Pfeifer came from the German village of Harstein [?] in the Pfalz region.
- 1811 Warenburg Census (Household No. 41).
- 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): Wr041.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 345.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #962.
Brent Mai