Johann Seitz, a farmer from Pfalz, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Katharina, age 4; Johann, age 9-weeks) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Severnyi Orel (Northern Eagle) under the command of Lieutenant Pyotr Malenkov.
Johannes Seitz, a farmer, and his wife Klara are recorded on the 1767 census of Sewald in Household No. 8. They had arrived in Sewald on 20 August 1767.
In 1791, Johannes Seitz moved from Sewald to Husaren.
The 1798 census of Husaren records Heinrich Seitz from Sewald in Household No. Hn29 with a note that he is working in Neu-Kolonie and his brother Konrad is working in Mariental.
Konrad Seitz and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Mariental in Household No. 144.
Mattias Seitz from Husaren is recorded on the 1834 census of Mariental in Household No. 124 along with a note that he had arrived in Mariental from Husaren in 1823.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Seitz in the German region of Pfalz. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Bürstadt in the Worms region.
- 1834 Mariental Census (Household No. 124, 144).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 371.
- 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): Hn24, Hn29, Mv2754.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 169.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2809.
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