Caspar Schott, a tailor (Schneider) from Heingrintau [Hain-Gründau] in the county of Büdingen, & Anna Margaretha Weingartner were married on 17 May 1766 in Pastor Möllraht's house in Lübeck. The marriage is recorded in the parish register of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Kaspar Schott, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Kaspar Schott, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and son Johannes (age ¼) are recorded on the 1767 census of Messer in Household No. 64. They had settled there on 18 June 1767.
In 1790, Johannes Schott moved from Messer to Franzosen.
Johannes Schott from Messer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Franzosen in Household No. Fz17.
Johannes Schott and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Franzosen in Household No. 82.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Kaspar Schott came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1834 Franzosen Census (Household No. 82).
- 1857 Rosenberg Census (Household No. 26).
- 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): 253.
- 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): Fz17, Mv1727.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #222.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 146.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1814.
Brent Mai