Johann Adam Röder, a farmer, his wife Susanna, and children (Maria Dorothea, age 20; Anna Margaretha, age 10½; Johann, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 August 1766 aboard the Russian galliot Citadel under the command of Midshipman Gregory Bukharin.
Adam Röder, a farmer, his wife [new] Katharina, and children by his 1st wife (Maria Dorothea, age 20; Anna Margaretha, age 18; Johannes, age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Messer in Household No. 91. They had arrived in Messer on 14 September 1767.
By 1798, Adam Röder's widow and their children are living in the colony of Bauer and are recorded there on the 1798 census in Households No. Br05 & Br07.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Adam Röder came from the German district of Isenburg.
- 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): Br05, Br07.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 153.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5227.
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