Paul Schmidt, a single tailor, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Paul Schmidt is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that he died in route.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Paul Schmidt came from the German region of Mainz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schmidt family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5407.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6984.
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