[Johann] Peter Stuckart, his wife Anna, and [step-]son Johann [Merkel] (age 17¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Catharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Peter Stuckard [sic], his wife Maria Dorothea, and stepson Friedrich Merckel [sic] (age 17) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Peter Stuckart, his [new] wife Anna Maria [widow of Johann Weyl Koch], stepson Johann Friedrich Merkel (age 17), and stepdaughter Anna Maria Koch (age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. 34. They had settled in Yagodnaya Polyana on 16 September 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Stuckart came from the German region of Hanau. The 1767 census records that the Stuckart family came from the German colony of Bobenhausen near Büdingen.
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Brent Mai