Spelling Variations
Philipp (Pfeifer)
Филипъ (Pfeifer)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Johann [Peter] Philipp, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard the pink Lev under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov.
Surviving son Johann Georg settled in the Volga German colony of Pfeifer on 20 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 2 along with the Peter Schwindt family.
The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Philipp and the Schwindt families.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 378.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2345.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai