Peter Schwertz, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 47.
Peter Schwertz (age 37), a farmer, his wife Anna Maria née Viehrath (age 26), and son Johann Friedrich [age not recorded] are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 98.
In 1790, Peter Schwertz and his wife left Katharinenstadt.
Both the 1767 census and the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register record that Peter Schwertz came from the German village of Mitau in the Kurland region and that his wife Anna came from the German village of Mittelmark near Berlin.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schwertz family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 98).
- 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): Mv1213.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 286.
Brent Mai