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Johann Peter Steinmetz, son of Heinrich & Anna Elisabeth Steinmetz, married in the Catholic Church in Heldenbergen on 17 July 1764 to Anna Maria Döll, daughter of Erasmus Döll [See Döll Family]. [The marriage register records that they were both Lutheran.]

Anna Maria Döll had been baptized in Heckenbergheim [today called Bergheim] on 22 March 1741.

Johann Peter Steinmetz and Anna Maria Döll had one child whose baptism is recorded in the parish register of Heckenbergheim: Johann Jacob, born 12 November 1765, baptized 17 November 1765.

Philipp Stang, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the snow-brig Die Frau Dietrika under the command of Skipper Joachim Friedrich Luhn.

He settled in the Volga German colony of Walter on 10 September 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census along with his new wife Elisabeth.

Widower Philipp Stang and his son Johann Heinrich are recorded on the 1798 census of Walter in Household No. Wt013.

Heinrich Stang and his wife are recorded on the 1834 census of Walter in Household No. 64.

Hermann Heinrich Borgens, a farmer, his wife Sophia, and children (Rudolph, age 14; Daniel, age 12; Dorothea, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the snow-brig Die Frau Dietrika under the command of Skipper Joachim Friedrich Luhn.

Hermann Heinrich Borgens, his new wife Katharina [believed to be the widow of Georg Bartholomae], and children (Heinrich, age 14; Daniel, age 12; Georg [Bartholomae], age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Walter in Household No. 73. They had settled there on 25 August 1767.

Peter Biedenkopf, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Reders.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Walter on 25 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 47.

The 1767 census records that the Biedenkopf family came from the German village of Wildensee near Erbach.

Johann Tobias Gottwig, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and son Philipp Ludwig (age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard the Russian pink Vologda under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev.

Johann Tobias Gottwig, his wife Margaretha, and son Philipp (age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Walter in Household No. 37. They had settled in Walter on 25 August 1767.

Philipp Gottwig and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Walter in Household No. Wt048.

Johannes Flach, son of Johann Nicolaus Flach, was born in Unter-Seibertenrod and baptized on 5 February 1713. Johannes Flach married on 26 November 1744 to Veronica Dörr, daughter of Eckhardt Dörr. She had been born in Unter-Seibertenrod on 9 November and baptized on 10 November 1720.

Among the children of Johannes Flach & Veronica Dörrborn in Unter-Seibertenrod are: (1) Anna Veronica, born 7 September 1745; (2) Catharina, born 16 March 1749; (3) Anna Catharina, born 18 January 1752; (4) Jacob, born 11 November 1758; and (5) Anna Elisabetha, born 16 June 1761.  

Johann Heinrich Dietz, son of Johann Jacob Dietz & Catharina Knöß was born 14 February 1697 in Sellnrod and baptized there on 15 February 1697. He married on 4 February 1731 in Sellnrod to Anna Elisabetha Peppler, daughter of Johannes Peppler, from Helpershain. Anna Elisabetha Peppler had been baptized 17 December 1710 in Helpershain. [Her relationship, if any, to Johann Heinrich Peppler who settled in Hussenbach needs further research. See Peppler family.]