Just Schmidt, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Johann, age 9; [Jo]Hanetta, age 7; Heinrich, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Jenßen.
Johann Jost Schmidt, his wife Maria Christina, and children (Johann Peter, age 10; Katharina, age 7¾; Johann Heinrich, age 1½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Just Schmidt, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Peter, age 11; Johanna, age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 45. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.
Johann Just Schmidt and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. Nm46.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Just Schmidt came from the German region of Braunfels. The 1767 census records that Just Schmidt came from the German village of Biskirchen near Braunfels.
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- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Nm46.
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Brent Mai