Johann Heinrich Zinn from Großenmoor, and Anna Kunigunda Quantz, daughter of Johannes Quantz, were married in Burghaun on 6 June 1747. They had three children, each born in Burghaun: (1) Anna Eva, born 21 February 1748; (2) Anna Maria, born 22 April 1750; and (3) Johann Adam, born 26 January 1753. Johann Heinrich Zinn died on 11 January 1756. Anna Cunigunda remarried to Georg Göbel on 1 May 1759. Georg Göbel died on 15 April 1760. Anna Cunigunda again remarried to Valentin Rommel on 16 July 1760.
Valentin Rommel, Anna Kunigunda, and their combined Rommel & Zinn children arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Guilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
Johann Adam [Zinn] (age 15) is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Hussenbach. The 1798 census of Hussenbach records Johann Adam Zinn in Household No. Hs040.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 823.
- 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): Hs040.
- Parish register of Burghaun.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6591.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7196.
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