Schütz (Ober-Monjou)

[Christian] Heinrich Schulze [sic], his wife Marianna, and children (Simon, age 16; Heinrich, age 11; Anna Maria, age 9; Margaretha, age 4; Cornelius, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1767 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Heinr. Schutze [sic], his wife Mariana, and children (Joh. Simon, age 17; Heinr. Nicolaus, age 11; Anna Maria, age 9; Margar. Wilhelmina, age 4; Joh. Cornelius, age 2) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou on 7 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 54.

The 1767 census of Ober-Monjou records that Heinrich Schütz relocated in 1768 to the colony of Katharinenstadt, but the movement tables accompanying the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou record that in 1769, Christian Schütz and his family moved from Ober-Monjou to Katharinenstadt.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Schulze [sic] was a farmer. The 1767 census records that Heinrich Schütz [sic] was a merchant (Kaufmann).

The 1767 census records that Heinrich Schütz [sic] came from the German village of Albstadt [?] in the Schwaben region.