Johann[es] Schulz, a single man, arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 April 1766 aboard a two-masted merchant ship named Der Kleine Andreas (The Little Andrew) under the command of Skipper Jacob Jensen.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Schwed on 12 July 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 1 along with his new wife Elisabeth and a note that he is serving as the colony's mayor (Vorsteher).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schulz was a miller from the German region of Schlesien (Silesia). The 1767 census records that he was a farmer from the German village of Schweidnitz in Schlesien (Silesia).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schultz family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 139.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #20.
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