Pierre Prud'hon, a farmer (Agriculteur, age 37), and his unnamed wife, a seamstress (Couturière, age 28) are recorded on a list of French colonists dated September 1764.
Pierre Prudon [sic], a blacksmith (Schmied), and his wife Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Franzosen on 28 July 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 11.
The 1764 list of colonists records that Pierre Prud'hon came from the French region of Burgandy and that his wife came from the German town of Hannover.
The 1767 census records that Pierre Prudon came from the French village of Beaune.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas & Georg Rauschenbach. Die "Berufer": Abenteurer der Aufklärung in Katharinas II. Kolonisierungsprojekt (Moscow, 2019): 41.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 443.
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