Johann [Wilhelm] Weingart, a farmer, his wife Marianna, and son Anton (age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Wilhelm Weingart, his wife Maria Magdalena, and son Anton (age ½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Son Anton is recorded on the 1798 census of Biberstein in Household No. Bb33.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Weingart came from the German region of Runkel.
- 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): Bb33.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5540.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3538-3540.
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