Heinrich [Christoph] Reinhardt and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 3 June 1766 aboard the galliot Adler under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dinkel on 27 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 34 with a note that they resettled in 1768 to the colony of Warenburg.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Reinhardt was a cobbler while the 1767 census records that he was a farmer.
The 1767 census records that Christoph [Heinrich] Reinhardt came from the German village of Lebbin in the Brandenburg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Reinhardt family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 306.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #739.
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