Jakob Preuss, a farmer, his wife Sophia, and children (Anton, age 19; Barbara, age 16; Andreas, age 15; Johann, age 9; Lorenz, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a ship named Der Ringende Jacob (The Wrestling Jacob) under the command of Skipper Johann Heitmann.
Johann Jacob Preiss, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Anthon, age 19; Barbara, age 17; Andreas, age 15; Johannes, age 9; Catrina, age 7; Lorentz, age 3) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Anna Maria and children (Johannes & Catrina) died en route.
Jacob Preuss, a farmer, his wife Susanna, and children (Barbara, age 15; Andreas, age 14; Lorenz, age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Lauwe in Household No. 8 along with stepson Anton [surname not recorded, but determined to be Schreier] (age 19). They had settled in Lauwe on 19 August 1767.
The 1798 census records that Jakob's son Andreas has moved to the colony of Brabander where he is recorded in Household No. Bn65.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Preuss came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Jakob Preuss came from the German village of Mömlingen in the Kurmainz region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 529.
- 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): Bn65, Lw30.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 39.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4135 (p. 269).
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