Ludwig Schmidt, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughters (Anna, age 7; Margaretha, age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg.
Ludwig Schmidt, a farmer, his wife Anna Katharina, and daughter Anna Maria (age 8) settled in Warenburg on 12 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 34.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that that Ludwig Schmidt came from the German region of Hanau.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 326.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1160.
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