Johann Pollet, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughters (Margaretha, age 19; Barbara, age 12) arrived from Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard the pink Slon under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Johannes Pollet, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Barbara (age 14) are recorded on the 1767 census of Preuss in Household No. 47. They had settled there on 12 May 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Pollet came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Johannes Pollet came from the German village of Hattersheim in the Kurmainz region.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 2005): 420.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #617.
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