Jakob Weisbeck, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and cihldren (Johann, age 6; Maria, age 3; Anna Elisabeth, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a galliot named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper David Wohlert.
Jakob Weisbeck, a farmer, and his wife Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Hildmann on 20 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 36.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Weissbeck came from the German region of the Pfalz while the 1767 census records that he came from the German region of Fulda.
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