Johann Schmidt, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Johann, age 10¼; Anna, age 7; Katharina, age 4; Konrad, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a barque named Fortitudo (Fortitute) under the command of Skipper John Scott.
Johannes Schmidt, his wife Maria Magdalena, and children (Johann Adam, age 13; Anna Maria, age 10; Anna Catharina, age 9; Conrad, age 2) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that father Johannes died en route.
Widow Maria Magdalena remarried to Franz Zacharias Greich. They and her surviving children (Johann Adam Schmidt, age 13; Maria Schmidt, age 9; Anna Katharina Schmidt, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 58 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Seelmann in 1768.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schmidt came from the German region of Fulda. The 1767 census does not record from where the Schmidt siblings came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schmidt family among the Volga German colonies.
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