Johann[es] Schulz, a single man, arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 May 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Jakob Janson.
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 fom the German villge of Schweidnitz in Schlesien (Silesia).
- 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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