Johannes Schäfer was born 31 August 1740 in Höchst.
Johannes Schäfer married in St. Mary's Lutheran Church in Büdingen on 28 April 1766 to Elisabeth Höck of Rimhorn, daughter of master baker Johann Nikolaus Höck.
Johann Schäfer, a farmer, and his wife Maria [sic] Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 11 August 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Citadel under the command of Midshipman Gregory Bukharin.
Johannes Schaeffer and Anna [sic] Elisabeth are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They arrived in the colony of Frank in 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 97.
Johannes Schäfer and his wife Barbara Müller are recorded on the 1798 census of Frank in Household No. Fk018.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schäfer came from the German region of Erbach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schäfer among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
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- 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): Fk018.
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- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8326-8327.
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