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Adam Rothammel, a tailor (Schneider), and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Rothammel on 21 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 1. The 1767 census identifies Adam Rothammel as the mayor (Vorsteher) of the colony and it is after him that the colony took its name.

In 1792, Mattias Rothammel moved from Rothammel to Sewald.

The 1767 census records that Adam Rothammel came from the German village of Molsheim in the Alsace region.

Kaspar Rohschauer, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Rothammel on 21 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 14.

The 1767 census records that Kaspar Rohschauer came from the German village of Käfertal in the Kurpfalz region.

Philipp Pfister, a farmer, and his family along with stepdaughter Katharina (surname not recorded) settled in the Volga German colony of Rothammel on 6 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 26.

The 1767 census records that Philipp Pfister came from the German village of Sillers in the Lothringen region.

Johannes Rehauser, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Katharina, age 17; Peter, age 16; Christina, age 14; Franzisca, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Johann Grapp.

Johann Rehhauser [sic], his wife Maria, and children (Catharina, age 19; Peter, age 17¼; Christina, age 14; Francisca, age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 with a note that father Johann died en route.

Matthias Ingenthron, a baker, his wife Anna Maria (who is not the mother of his sons), and his sons ([a] Johann Nikolaus, age 19, and [b] Balthasar, age 17) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.

Matthias died after arrival in Russia, and Anna Maria remarried to a man named Weigand.  She and stepson Balthasar Ingenthron settled in the Volga German colony of Rothammel on 21 August 1767.

Johann[es] Moschau [sic], a farmer, his wife Christina, and children (Johann age 3½; Maria, age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Johann Grapp.

Johannes Monschou [sic] and his daughter Catharina (age ¼) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Catharina had died en route.

Franz Meier, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Johann Grapp.

Franz Meyer and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Rothammel on 21 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 16.

The 1767 census records that Franz Meier came from the town of Straßburg in the area of Alsace.