Schmidt (Sewald-1)*
Anton Schmidt, a single baker, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Saratov under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Sewald on 20 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 14 along with his new wife Anna Maria and daughter Maria Katharina (age ¼).
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Anton Schmidt came from the German region of Alsace.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schmidt among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 170.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2782.
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