Dr. Hermann Wäschke records that Hans George Richter, a tenant (Mietsmann), with his wife, and two children (one son & one daughter), from Mosigkau in the district of [Anhalt]-Dessau, immigrated to Russia.
Georg Richter, a farmer, his wife Rosina, and children (Henrietta, age 13; Johann, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
The births/baptisms of two sons of Johann Nicolaus Reuter & Susanna Elisabetha Engelmann are recorded in the parish register of Gemünden: (1) Johann Christoph Reuter, born 10 February 1740, baptized 11 February 1740; and (2) Christian, baptized 30 March 1742.
Johannes Reuss from Lorbach near Büdingen married in Vonhausen on 30 July 1761 to Anna Elisabeth Scheidt, the daughter of Johann Scheidt.
Johann Reuss, a farmer, his wife [Anna] Elisabeth, and their daughter Albertina (age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax. They were traveling with Elisabeth's father, widower Johann Scheidt.
Johann Dieter Rettig, son of Johannes Rettig & Margaretha Röder, was born 21 January 1704 in Gronau. He married in Gronau on 13 February 1725 to Catharina Elisabetha Metzger, daughter of Nicolaus Metzger & Catharina Metzger.She had been born 2 April 1703 in Gronau.
Johann Reitz was baptized in Hasselborn, Nassau-Usingen. This was a family of shephards that traveled from one village to another in the Nassau-Usingen area.
Johann Reitz, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 13; Anna, age 10¼; Kasimir, age 6; Johann [again], age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a barque named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.
Johann Jacob Rein, son of Johann Jacob & Anna Catharina Rein, was born 6 May 1706 in Mettenheim. He married there on 2 March 1734 to his first wife Anna Catharina Lucius, daughter of Christian Friedrich Lucius. She died there on 5 October 1748 in childbirth. He then married in Mettenheim on 23 January 1749 to Anna Elisabeth Weinbach, daughter of Johannes & Catharina Gertraud Weinbach.
Among their children, the following sons were born there: Johann Jacob (born 13 August 1750) and Johann Melchior (born 16 February 1752).
Andreas Reiter, son of Johann Michael Reiter from Hildburghausen & Katharina Weibrecht from Gersfeld, was born on 23 December 1736 in Gersfeld, then part of the Free Noble Province of Ancient Knights.
Andreas Reuter, a farmer, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Catharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Johann Caspar Rieß, a chicken carrier (Hühnerträger), married 8 August 1741 in Queckborn to Anna Maria Schneider, daughter of Conrad & Anna Catharina Schneider. Anna Maria Schneider had been born 30 November 1703 in Brüssel. Johann Caspar Reiß died in Queckborn on 1 February 1760 [age 45y 2m 1d] and was buried 2 February 1760. Anna Maria Rieß née Schneider was buried in Queckborn on 2 September 1798 [age at death: 92y 9m 2d].
There are 3 Reinicke families affiliated with the Volga German colony of Frank. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Anna Maria Reinick [sic], daughter of Johannes Reinick & Margaretha Guttmann, was born 23 November 1739 in Gersfeld. She married there on 14 June 1766 to Andreas Reiter who was also from Gersfeld.
(2) Joachim Reineke & Elisabeth Ratkens were married 31 July 1766 in a house in Lübeck.
Evangelische Kirche Gross Zimmern records Peter Reinhardt's birth in Gross Zimmern, Dieburg (Hessen-Darmstadt Germany) 3 Oct. 1734:
[1734] #29 Johann Peter, Meister Joh: Wendel Reinhardts und Anne Dorotheae Söhnl. wurde gebohren nachts zwischen 2tn u 3t xbris zwischen 2 u 3 Uhr und getauft Sontags d. 5t. ejus d: Spond: Meister Joh: Peter Reinhardt, Einwohner in ...heim