Johann Georg Sauer, a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and children (Anna Maria, age 17½; Johann, age 13; Stephan, age 8½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named St. Johannes (Saint John) under the command of Skipper Carstens Stahl.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Hussenbach. Son Stephan Sauer is recorded there on the 1798 census in Household No. Hs082.
The death of Stephan Sauer in 1800 is recorded on the 1811 census of Hussenbach in Household No. 82. The death of his only son Johann Heinrich in 1799 is also recorded in this household.
The death of Johannes Sauer, brother of Stephan Sauer, in 1818 is recorded on the 1834 census of Hussenbach in Household No. 112. He had no known surviving sons.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Georg Sauer came from the German region of Erbach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Sauer family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1811 Hussenbach Census (Household No. 82).
- 1834 Hussenbach Census (Household No. 112).
- 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): 795.
- 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): Hs082.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6364.
Brent Mai