Johann Reitz was baptized in Hasselborn, Nassau-Usingen. This was a family of shephards that traveled from one village to another in the Nassau-Usingen area.
Johann Reitz, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 13; Anna, age 10¼; Kasimir, age 6; Johann [again], age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a barque named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.
Johann Reitz, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Johannes, age 13; Elisabeth, age 12; and Kasimir, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Bangert in Household No. 9. They had settled there on 1 July 1767.
Kaspar [sic] Reitz and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of neighboring Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. St20. This is believed to be the above referenced Kasimir Reitz.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Reitz came from the German region of Nassau. The 1767 census records that Johann Reitz came from the German village of Hasselborn in the Nassau-Usingen 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): 436.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Bg06, Bg26, St20.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 107.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3397.
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