Johann Wendel Daniel, son of Heinrich Dieter Daniel & Anna Salome Spalt, was born on 5 February 1720 in Groß-Bieberau, 15 kilometers southwest of Darmstadt. He was baptized on the same day in the Groß-Bieberau Evangelical Church. On 20 April 1756 in Wembach, he married Anna Margaretha Mentzer, daughter of Johann Peter Mentzer & Catharina Elisabetha Volck. Anna Margaretha Mentzer had been born 25 January 1734 in Frankenhausen.
Johann Philipp Damm was born in Reiskirchen. He resided in Großen-Buseck where he had married on 28 June 1747 to Anna Catharina Rausch. They had four children, each born in Großen-Buseck: (1) Anna Barbara, born 21 April 1748; (2) Johann Christoffel, born 24 November 1750; (3) Anna Dorothea, born 28 January 1753; and (4) Elisabetha Dorothea, born 11 May 1756.
The Damms and their three youngest children immigrated to Russia. They left Lübeck aboard the galliot Anna Catharina with Johann Joachim Janson as skipper. The ship arrived in Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766.
Christianus Dahlinger, son of Johann Michael Dahlinger & Anna Catharina Dahlinger, was baptized in Langenalb on 3 January 1701. He married in Langenalb on 5 December 1724 to Maria Eva Weiß, daughter of Caspar Weiß & Eva Lehmann. She had been baptized in Langenalb on 25 January 1706.
Georg Heinrich Buxmann was born 6 January 1717 in Überau, a small village southeast of Reinheim. He married to Elisabeth and they had several children, among whom was Johann Georg (born 19 June 1745 in Überau). Georg Heinrich died on 13 January 1760. His widow remarried Kaspar Axthelm, a sock weaver from Überau. The parish register in Überau records that Axthelm "took off for Russia in the night with his wife and 4 step-children, leaving behind many debts, a house, and goods."
Johannes Buxbaum, son of Georg Heinrich Buxbaum (3 June 1695-16 May 1776) and Maria Dorothea Maÿ (2 July 1718-27 Feb 1761), was born 27 April 1743 in Sprachbrücken.
He decided to immigrate to Russia, and while in Büdingen where families were gathering before they departed for Russia he married Maria Elisabeth Meier. Their marriage is recorded in the parish register of Büdingen: "Johannes Buchsbaum from Sprachbrücken & Maria Eliesabetha Meÿer from Reicheim [Reinheim] married on 25 April 1766." [See Meier Family.]
Johannes Buss, a son of Adam & Maria Buss, was born on 27 March 1723 and baptized on 29 March 1723 in the Evangelical (Reformed) Church in Eberstadt, today located in a southern district of the city of Darmstadt.
Johann Peter Buseck was born 3 September 1716 in Kröffelbach and died on 8 July 1764 in Biskirchen. He married on 28 December 1736 in Biskirchen to Catharina Margaretha Klepper, daughter of Johann Jost Klepper and Anna Margarita Weber. Catharina was born on 5 January 1716.
The birth of their son Johann Georg Buseck is recorded in Biskirchen on 1 October 1761.
The births of the following children born in Oberhausen to Andreas Burkhardt & Dorothea Klüber are recorded in the parish register of Gersfeld: (1) Johannes, born 6 July 1732, baptized 7 July 1732; and (2) Nikolaus, born 19 January 1741.
(1) Johannes Burkhardt married in Gersfeld on 15 October 1756 to Margaretha Barthelmeß, daughter of Sebastian Barthelemeß & Elisabetha Wohlmacher. She had been born in Gersfeld on 8 March 1734.
Johann Conradt Burbach married in Hüttengesäß on 21 September 1715 to Anna Maria Zieg. Ann Maria Burbach née Zieg died in Hüttengesäß on 16 February 1722.
Among the children of Johann Conradt Burbach & Anna Maria Zieg whose baptisms are recorded in the parish register of Hüttengesäß are: (1) Conrad, baptized in 1716; and (2) Anna Dorothea, baptized 12 March 1719.
Johann Georg Büchner was born in 1743. He was living in Schafheim at the time that he married on 6 March 1764 in Ober-Ramstadt to Dorothea Sophia Kuhlmann, daughter of Johann Andreas Kuhlmann & Susanna Maria Lämmermann. Dorothea Sophia had been born in Ober-Ramstadt on 7 November 1743.
Georg Büchner, a farmer, his wife Dorothea, and son Johann (age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Der Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.