Speiter
Spelling Variations:
Speiter
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Adam Speiter, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard the pink Slon under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Leichtling on 14 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 23.
The 1767 census records that Adam Speiter came from the German village of Seligenstadt in the region of Mainz.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 56.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #576.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai