Kaspar Schütz, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Katharina, age 14; Elisabeth, age 11; Maria, age 8; Johann, age 5½) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 27 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Слон (Slon - Elephant in Russian) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Johann Kaspar Schütz (age 39), a farmer, his wife Elisabeth (age 37), and children (Katharina, age 16; Elisabeth, age 13, Maria Elisabeth, age 10; Johannes, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 122. They had arrived in Warenburg on 12 May 1767.
The death of Kaspar Schütz in 1805 is recorded on the 1811 census of Warenburg in Household No. 36 along with his son Johann Heinrich and grandsons (Johann Peter, age 19; Georg Philipp, age 11; Johann Christoph, age 9).
[Johann] Christoph Schütz, son of Johann Heinrich Schütz, from Warenburg and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Straub in Household No. 42.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Kaspar Schütz came from the German region of Hanau. The 1767 census records that Johann Kaspar Schütz came from the German village of Nieder-Erlenbach in the Hanau region. Ron Brott reports that this family came from the village of Nieder-Eschbach.
- 1811 Warenburg Census (Household No. 36).
- 1834 Straub Census (Household No. 42).
- 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): 114.
- 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): Wr036, Wr055.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 340.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #613.
Ron Brott
Brent Mai