Adam Damm [sic], a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and children (Johann, age 17½; Barbara, age 15; Anna, age 13; Anna [again], age 11; Maria, age 4; Margaretha, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a barque named Fortitudo (Fortitude) under the command of Skipper John Scott.
Johann Adam Thomä, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Pfeifer on 22 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 71.
The families of Johannes & Peter Thomä from Pfeifer are recorded on the 1857 census of Josefstal.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Adam Damm [sic] came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Johann Adam Domme came from the German village of Lohr am Main.
Most descendants of this family use the surname of Dome or Domme in North and South America.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 470.
- 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): Pf75.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 394.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3664.
Brent Mai