Kreiss (Seelmann)
Jakob Kreiss, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and daughter (Cunigunda, age 2) 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 Seelmann on 15 July 1767. His wife died on 3 September 1767 and he is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 76.
Jakob is recorded on the 1798 census in the colony of Preuss (Ps67).