Georg [Wilhelm] Pflug a tailor, his wife Katharina, children (Henrietta, age 13; Karl, age 3), and father Peter arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Joh. Peter Pflug, his son Georg Wilhelm Pflug, Georg Wilhelm's wife Catharina, and their children (Henrietta, age 13; Carll Lorentz, age 3) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Joh. Peter, Catharina, and Carll Lorentz died en route.
[Georg] Wilhelm Pflug, a tailor (Schneider), and his [new] wife Anna Zimmermann settled in the Volga German colony of Kaneau on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 85.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Pflug came from the German region of Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Wilhelm Pflug came from the German town of Wiesbaden.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 262.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5380.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3139-3143.
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