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Johannes Meier, a farmer, his wife Christina, and son Jakob (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Joh. Meyer [sic] and his wife Christina are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johannes Meier, a farmer, his wife Christina, and son Wilhelm (9-months) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 21.

Heinrich Dietrich, a farmer, and his wife Eva are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 14.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The 1767 census records that Heinrich Dietrich came from the German vilage of Versen [?] in the Düneburg.

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

Bernhard Montur [?] Wagner, his wife Anna, and children (Johanna, age 3; Jakob, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.

Bernhardt Wagener [sic], his [new?] wife Dorothea, and children (Johanna, age 3; Caspar, age 1½; Anna Christina, born in route) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that both Caspar and newborn Anna Christina died in route.

Gottfried Müller and his wife Karolina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.

Gottfried Müller and his wife Carolina are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Gottfried died in route.

It is not known in which colony the widow Carolina Müller settled.

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

Peter Scheidt, a miller (Müller), and his wife Maria are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 9 along with his stepchildren (Sabina Lepkrenk, age 17; Jakob Lepkrenk, age 12; Peter Lepkrenk, age 5).

It is not known in which colony either the Scheidt or Lepkrenk families settled.

The 1767 census records that Peter Scheidt came from the German village of Schedremich [?].

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

Siblings Anna Maria (age 4) and Konrad (age 2) Michel are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No 2 along with their step-father Georg Zimmermann.

It is presumed that they settled in the colony of Schönchen along with their parents.

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

Philipp Schäfer, his wife Anna, and daughter Ursula (age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 August 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.

The parish register of Schilling records the birth of Johanna Helena Catharina Schäfer, daughter of Philipp Wilhelm Schäfer & Anna Maria Börger, on 11 May 1767 in Kolomna while en route to the colonies.

Joseph Karl and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a ship named Der Friede (Peace) under the command of Skipper Hans Karck.

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

Joseph Karl, a merchant (Kaufmann), and his wife Friederika are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 24.

In 1774, Joseph Karl and his family moved from Schönchen to Moscow.