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Axt (Unknown)*

Heinrich Axt, a farmer, his wife Maria, and son Daniel (age 3-weeks) 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.

Heinrich Axt, a farmer, and his wife Anna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 39.

It is not known in which colony this family settled.

Reuscher (Unknown)*

Peter Reuscher, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Katharina, age 4; Johann, age 9-months) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 27.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The 1767 census records that Peter Reuscher came from the German village of Alt[en]kirchen.

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

Schon (Unknown)*

Christian Schon, his wife Margaretha, and son Johann Jakob (age 18) 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.

Christian Schone [sic] and his son Jacob (age 18) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that son Jacob died in route.

Meier (Unknown-7)*

Siblings Kaspar Meier (age 12) and Eva Meier (age 9) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 12 along with their stepfather Ignatius Hauer.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The 1767 census does not record from where the Meier siblings came.

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

Heier*

Ignatius Heier, his wife Anna Christina, and sons (Ludwig, age 7; Bernhard, age 2¼) 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.

Ignatius Heier, his wife Anna Christina, and sons (Bernhardus, age 7; Franz Gabriel, age 2¼) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Anna Christina and son Frantz Gabriel died in route.

Benedikt (Zürich)*

Johann Benedikt, his wife Barbara, and children (Margaretha, age 20; Margaretha [again], age 7; Katharina, age ½) 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.

Johann Benedict, his wife Barbara, and daughters (Margaretha, age 20; Margaretha [again], age 14; Katharina, age ½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Katharina died en route.

Reisenberg*

Franz Reisenberg 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.

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

Franz Reisenberg, a tobacco worker (Tabakarbeiter), and his wife Barbara are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 21 along with his stepdaughter Margaretha Benedikt (age 12).

Burg(h)ardt (Unknown)*

Johann Burghardt and his wife Barbara 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.

Johannes Burchard [sic] and his wife Barbora [sic] are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johann Burghardt, a farmer, and his wife Barbara are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 20.

It is not known in which colony the settled.