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Andreas Wulf, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of the Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.

Andreas Wolff is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony he settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Wulf came from the German region of Holstein.

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

Johann Hoffmann, a single cobbler (Schuhmacher), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of the Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.

Johann Gottfried Hoffmann is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony he settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Hoffmann came from the German region of Halle.

Lars Swensen, a farmer, his wife Fischke, and son Kaschilarsch [?] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of the Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.

They are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Lars Swensen came from the German region of Holstein.

Heinrich Schlötel, a farmer, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of the Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.

Widow Maria Schlötel is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that she died in route.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Schlötel came from the German region of Holstein.

Joh. Henrich Sendelbach & Anna Margr. Seils [sic] were married on 8 March 1766 at the Lutheran Church in Büdingen.

Heinrich Sentelbach [sic], a farmer, and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 27 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Слон (Slon - Elephant in Russian) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.

Konrad Göbel, a farmer, his wife Rosina, and servant Eva Hoffmann (age 22) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.

Eva Schmidt née Hoffmann (age 24) and her husband Bernhardt Schmidt (age 27) are recorded on the 1767 census of Göbel in Household No. 69.

Johann Schneider, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Anna, age 16¼; Peter, age 13; Heinrich, age 8; Mattias, age 7; Jakob, age 5) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Лапоминк (Lapomink - a Russian river) under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Krykov.

Anna Maria Legewski, a farmer's widow, arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Гданьская Надежда (Gdansk Hope) under the command of Skipper Johann Erdmann Geske.

Anna Maria Legewski is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony she settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anna maria Legewski came from the German region of Danzig.