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Johann Dörr, his wife Helena, and son Anton (age 12) 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.

Christoph Doer, his wife Helena, and son Anton (age 13½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johann Christoph Dörr, a gardner (Gärtner), and his wife Helena are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 55.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

Johann Just [sic] Beitel and his wife Anna 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.

Johann Jost Beutel, a single farmer, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 59.

It is not known in which colony he settled.

The 1767 census records that Johann Jost Beutel came from the German village of Gleiszellen [?].

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

Heinrich Glau (age 20) is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 52 along with his stepfather Johann Jakob Glass.

It is not known in which colony Heinrich Glau settled.

The 1767 census does not record from where Heinrich Glau came.

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

Johann Jakob Glass, a farmer, and his wife Anna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 52 along with his stepson Heinrich Glau (age 20).

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The 1767 census records that Johann Jakob Glass came from the German village of Palium [?]

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

Johann Friedrich Raabe, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Anna (age 5) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 50.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The 1767 census records that Johann Friedrich Raabe came from the German village of Zell.

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

Peter Sing [sic], his wife Eva, and sons (Johann, age 9; Georg, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 August 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.

Peter Sick, a farmer, his wife Eva, and sons (Johann Christian, age 10; Georg Heinrich, age 7) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 271.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

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

Heinrich Leibel, a farmer, and his wife Anna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 40.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The 1767 census records that Heinrich Leibel came from the Gemran village of Nieder-Wiesen.

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