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Orphaned sisters Susanna Christina Bruschner (age 11) and Elisabeth Bruschner (age 5) are recorded on the list of Beauregard recruits (Household No. 109) that is attached to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies. They are recorded in the household of Franz Waas. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Bruschner and Waas families.

The Waas family settled in the colony of Ober-Monjou, and it is presumed that the Bruschner sisters settled there as well.

The 1767 census does not record from where the Bruschner sisters came.

Adam Weig, a linen weaver (Leineweber), his wife Christina, and sons (Jakob, age 20; Philipp, age 9) are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (Household No. 103) appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The 1767 census records that Adam Weig came from the German village of Westerburg.

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

Widow Katharina Martensheim and her sons (Johannes, age 22; Peter, age 12; Anton, age 9; Wilhelm, age 6) are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (Household No. 104) appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The 1767 census records that Katharina Martensheim came from the German village of Nanenburg.

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

Johann Gebauf [sic], a farmer, and his wife Rosalia 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.

Johannes Gebauer, a farmer, and his wife Rosa are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (Household No. 101) appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

Jakob Ras, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (Household No. 93) appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The 1767 census records that Jakob Ras came from the German village of Wirtheim.

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

Nikolaus König, a farmer, and his wife Anna 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.

Nicol. König and his wife Anna Margaretha are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Nikolaus König, a farmer, and his wife Katharina are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (Household No. 84) appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

Idt & Rauschenbach record that Konrad Leidecker & Konrad Mühlecker are the same person.

Konrad Leidecker and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.

Konrad Leider [sic] and his wife Katharina are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.