Peter Weil, a farmer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, son Nikolaus (age 1½), and [nephew] Johann Heinrich [Schütz] (age 14) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
Peter Weil (age 28), a farmer, and his wife Maria Elisabeth (age 28) are recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 43 along with his nephew, the orphan Heinrich Schütz (age 15). They had arrived in Warenburg on 12 May 1767.
The 1767 census does not record from where Heinrich Schütz came.
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Brent Mai