Jakob Schapert, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 129 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
Jakob Schapert, a farmer, and his wife Friederika are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 22 along with orphan Eleonora Hammel (age 8). They had settled there on 12 May 1767. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Schaubert and Hammel families.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Jakob Schapert came from the German region of Zweibrücken.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schapert family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 119.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 67.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #658.
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