Gottfried Richter is recorded on the 1798 census of Zürich in Household No. Zr23. Researcher Andreas Raith believes that he may be recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits that is attached to the 1767 census No. 16 as Friedrich Richter, because there are several other Zürich families recorded on this list in close proximity to this Friedrich Richter.
Andreas Raith further reports that the Gottfried Richter in question may be the Gottfried Richter who arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 26 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Die Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will, because other Zürich families are also aboard this vessel.
The Friedrich Richter recorded on the 1767 census came from the German village of Görlitz in Sachsen (Saxony).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Richter family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 858.
- 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): Zr23.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 352.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #6969.
Brent Mai