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Johann Martin & Barbara Eisele had four children: (1) Regina Katharina, baptized in August 1749 in the Ruit Evangelical Church, just north of Ölbronn; (2) Barbara, born in 1749; (3) Elisabetha, born in 1750; and (4) Johann Georg Wendel, born on 13 April 1757 and baptized on 14 April 1757 in the Ölbronn Evangelical Church.

Johann Martin and his family immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein), departing from Altona, Duchy of Holstein, on 29 June 1761 under the leadership of Johann Thomas Gabler. They arrived in the city of Schleswig, Duchy of Schleswig, on 4 July 1761.

Johann Michael Eichmann was born about 1743 in Breitenbrunn, southeast of Höchst im Odenwald. He married in Büdingen to Anna Barbara Völker on 30 June 1766, the same day that his presumed sister married Johann Nikolaus Dorsch.

Johann Michael Eichmann, a farmer, and his wife Anna Barbara arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Diederika (Lady Diederika) under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Lunau.

Johann Sebastian Eich married on 1 February 1746 in Nieder-Modau to Sophia Philippina Ramge, daughter of Konrad Ramge.

The births of the following children born to Johann Sebastian Eich & Sophia Philippina Ramge are recorded in the parish register of Georgenhausen: (1) Johann Peter, born 24 October 1748 in Wembach, died 3 November 1748; (2) Anna Margaretha Barbara, born 19 October 1749 in Georgenhausen; (3) Elisabeth Margaretha, born 9 February 1753 in Georgenhausen; (4) Catharina Elisabetha, born in 1761 in Steinau; and (5) Johann Dieterich, born 7 May 1764 in Asbach.

Georg Wilhelm Edel was born in Sulzfeld on 8 December 1725. He married there on 21 May 1748 to Dorothea Haas (widow of a Mr. Sprecher). She had been born also in Sulzfeld on 12 September 1711.

They immigrated first to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) and settled on 24 July 1761 in the colony of Friedrichsanbau on the farmstead Großer Hof.

On 16 April 1765, Wilhelm and Dorothea left Friedrichsanbau and immigrated to Russia, arriving in the colony of Fischer on 7 July 1766. They are recorded in Fischer on the 1767 Census in Household No. 23.

Two Eckhardt families arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named St. Johannes (Saint John) under the command of Skipper Carstens Stahl. Both of them settled in the Volga German colony of Frank in 1767. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs additional research.

Christoph Eberhard, son of Georg Eberhard, was born in 1712 in Spöck, north of Karlsruhe. Christoph married on 4 June 1732 in the Blankenloch Lutheran Church to Anna Margaretha Metz, daughter of Adam Metz.

Johannes Jacob Eckler, from Lauterecken in Rheinland-Pfalz, married Sybilla Gertrude Bachmann on 2 July 1765 in the Catholic Church of Bensberg.

Jakob Eckler, a farmer, and his wife Gertrude arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.

Jacob Heckler [sic] and his wife Gerdruta are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

At the time that the Driess family left Leistadt, it was ruled by the Leiningen family. The baptism of Adam Driess is recorded in the Catholic parish records of Leistadt.

Adam Driess, a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and son Andreas (age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.

He and his wife settled in the Volga German colony of Sewald on 20 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 38.

Johann Heinrich Dierlam, a son of Johann Heinrich & Maria Dierlam, was born in Vadenrod, a village about 9 kilometers south of Alsfeld, in Hesse, and baptized on 21 April 1727 in the Evangelical Church of Hopfgarten, about 3 kilometers north of Vadenrod. He married to Elisabetha Eifert, daughter of Johann Heinrich Eifert, on 29 November 1748.

Johannes Dortmann, son of Johann Georg Dortmann & Anna Margaretha Hartmann, was born on 14 June 1725 and baptized on 15 June 1725 in the Evangelical Church in Birkenau, 25 kilometers north of Heidelberg. On 22 February 1752 he married to Elisabetha Barbara Hauser, a daughter of Johannes Hauser, in the same church.