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Widow Maria Sendelbach and her sons (Johann Adam & Martin) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.

Maria Sendelbach, widow of an unnamed farmer, and son Georg Adam (age not recorded) are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 113. They had settled there on 26 June 1767.

Adam Sendelbach from Brabander is recorded on the 1798 census of Dehler in Household No. Dl05.

Jakob Semle, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Mariental on 14 June 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 73.

The 1767 census records that Jakob Semle came from the German village of Arzdorf in the Kurpfalz region.

There are no known surviving male descendants of this family among the Volga German colonies.

Johann Seitz, a farmer from Pfalz, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Severnyi Orel (Northern Eagle) under the command of Lieutenant Pyotr Malenkov.

Johannes Seitz, a farmer, and his wife Klara are recorded on the 1767 census of Sewald in Household No. 8. They had arrived in Sewald on 20 August 1767.

In 1791, Johannes Seitz moved from Sewald to Husaren.

Jakob Seingold, a single weaver (Weber), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 3 June 1766 aboard the galliot Adler under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.

He settled in the Volga German colony of Dinkel on 31 September 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 54 with a note that he was actually living in the household of the mayor (Vorsteher) who was Johann Wilhelm Dinkel at the time.

Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Jakob Seingold came from the German region of Erfurt.

Peter Seil, a farmer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and sons (Johann Heinrich, age 14; Nikolaus, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 43.

The 1767 census records that Peter Seil came from the German village of Weilmünster in the Nassau-Weilburg region.

Andreas Seiftenberg, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax. Andreas died after arriving in Russia, and his widow Elisabeth remarried to Heinrich Wolter.

Andreas Saftenberg, his wife Anna, and son Daniel (age 9) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Mauritius Zeidenzahl [sic] 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 Urbach on 3 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 48.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Mauritius Zeidenzahl was a velvet maker while the 1767 census records that he was a craftsman (Handwerker).