Johann Sahl, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 18; Adam, age 12; Philipp, age 7; Maria, age 5¼) 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.
His surviving son settled in the Volga German colony of Bangert on 1 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 23 along with his new wife Christina.
The Oranienbaum passenger lists that Johann Sahl came from the German region of Nassau. The 1767 census records that Johann Stahl came from the German village of Niederlauken in the Nassau region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Sahl family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 111.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3399.
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