Abraham Sonnenblatt, a single merchant (Kaufmann), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 26 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Die Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Abraham Sonnenblatt is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 21 along with his [new] wife and her children (Karl [Deus], age 15; Heinrich [Deus], age 12; Michael [Deus], age 10; Jakob [Deus], age 7; Katharina [Deus], age 3). The 1767 census also recorded a note that the family relocated to the Volga German colony of Schaffhausen in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Abraham Sonnenblatt came from the German village of Filun [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Sonnenblatt family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 864.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 209.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7016.
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