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Johannes Glaser, son of Christoph & Anna Barbara Glaser, was born on 2 December 1708 in Eutingen, today an eastern suburb of Pforzheim, in Baden-Württemberg. He married Elisabetha Heydecker on 17 September 1733 in the Eutingen Lutheran Church.

They had seven children, each born and baptized in Eutingen: (1) Anna (baptized 14 March 1734); (2) Johann Jakob (baptized 26 February 1736); (3) Nikolaus (baptized 17 March 1738); (4) Rosina Barbara (baptized 1 May 1740); (5) Dorothea (baptized 18 April 1743); (6) Andreas (baptized 4 January 1746); and (7) Margaretha (born in 1758).

Johann Philipp Göbel was born 12 April 1728 in Großen-Buseck. He married there on 17 July 1755 to Anna Elisabeth Albach, daughter of Christian Albach of Burkhardsfelden. She was baptized 27 June 1728.

They had 4 children, each baptized in Großen-Buseck: (1) Johannes, baptized 11 February 1750; (2) Johann Melchior, baptized 13 November 1756; (3) Johann Philipp, baptized 31 May 1762; and (4) Johann Heinrich, baptized 9 June 1765.

Johann Heinrich Göthmann was born 20 April 1740 in Reichelsheim, Unter-Ostern, Germany. He was the son of Johann Peter Göthmann and Elisabeth Margaretha Hoffmeister who had married on 3 August 1739 in Kirch-Brombach. The Gettman family is originally from Nieder-Kinzig and has been researched back to the 1600s.

Johann Heinrich Kittmann [sic], a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Perle (The Pearl) under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.

Johann Reinhard Gerlach was married on 26 July 1763 in Babenhausen, straight south of Hanau, to Christina Sophia Heyer, daughter of Johann Peter Heyer & Anna Catharina Metzler.

Reinhard Gerlach, his wife Christina, and his mother Susanna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a galliot named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper David Wohlert.

Konrad Ganss, son of Johann Jakob Ganss, was born about 1730 in Neunkirchen, a very small town near west of Fränkisch-Crumbach (southeast of Darmstadt). He married Maria Barbara Vetter on 15 September 1757 in the Neunkirchen Evangelical Church. Maria Barbara, daughter of Wendel & Anna Maria Vetter, had been born 13 January 1735 and baptized 15 January 1735 in Neunkirchen. In 1758 they had a son, who was named Philipp Jakob.

Joseph Gammerstrath was born in about 1737 in Staffort. He immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) where he settled in the colony of Christiansheide first on 7 December 1761 on the farmstead of Bärens Hof, moving on 31 October 1762 to the farmstead of Basballes Hof.

The marriage of Joshua [sic] Gammerstrath and the widow of Johann Matthias Grenemeier [Maria Margaretha Zwecker] is recorded on 8 January 1762 in the parish of Handewitt. She had been born on 30 January 1719 in Graben Neudorf.

Pierre (Peter) Galloÿ, son of Pierre Galloÿ & Helwig Sophie Dietz, was born on 7 August 1739 and baptized on 13 August 1739 in Neu-Isenburg near Büdingen. He was confirmed there on 11 April 1759. He married in Büdingen on 7 April 1766 to Anne Elisabeth Vester, daughter of Jean Jacob Vester & Ursule Tiber. She had also been baptized in Neu-Isenburg on 25 April 1745.

Franz Funk was born about 1804. He married Anna. They and their children immigrated in 1855 from Augustwalde bei Marienburg, Prussia, to the Am Trak colonies, arriving there in 1856. Anna evidently died between 1856 and 1857 when the 1857 Census of Hahnsau was taken, because Franz is listed there married to Sara Jantzen in Household No. 19.

Today, Augustwalde is located in Poland and known as Wiśniewo.

Johann Valentin Fuchs was born on 11 June 1735 in the village of Altenbach in the Kurpfalz.

He immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) where he married Anna Maria Reitermann on 13 June 1760 in Altona. She had been born in 1738.

In 1763, the Fuchs family immigrated to Russia, settling on 6 October 1764 in the colony of Anton. Valentin Fuchs, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Maria Katharina, age 5; Johann Georg Leonhard, age 3; Johannes, age ¾) are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 38.

Karl Jakob Früauf is the son of Johann Friedrich Früauf, leader of the Moravian (Brüdergemeine) community of Neudietendorf im Herzogtum, near Erfurt, in Saxe-Gotha (today part of Thüringen). Karl Jakob was born there on 25 September 1768.