Daniel [Schmidt] (age 16¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Die Jungfer Friederika under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm along with his sister Sabina and brother-in-law Nikolaus Becker.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Straub on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 51.
Daniel Schmidt and his stepson Daniel Straub are recorded on the 1811 census of Straub in Household No. 29 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Neu-Straub [year not recorded].
The death of Daniel Schmidt in 1828 is recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Straub in Household No. 43.
Neither the Oranienbaum passenger list nor the 1767 census record from where Daniel Schmidt came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schmidt family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1811 Straub Census (Household No. 29).
- 1834 Neu-Straub Census (Household No. 43).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 152.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Sr29.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 242.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #939.
Brent Mai