Mattias Schiffler, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck on 14 August 1766 aboard a 2-masted merchant ship named Die Jungfer Frederika (The Maiden Frederika) under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm.
Andreas Züfle are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767. Rauschenbach records that this is the same person as Mattias Schiffler.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Stephan on 24 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 33.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Mattias Schiffler came from the German region of Württemberg. The 1767 census records that Mattias Schiffler came from the German village of Hallwangen [?] in the Württemberg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family (either Schiffler or Züfle) among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 714.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 227.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5709.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2010.
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