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Martin Witebach, a farmer, and his wife Julianna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.

Martin Witebach and his wife Juliana are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Martin Witebach came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony).

Widower Johann Hampe, a farmer, his son Christoph (age 4), and mother Eva Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.

Joh. Lebrecht Hampe, his [new] wife Rosine, and son Joh. Christoph (age 4) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that father Joh. Lebrecht Hampe died in route.

It is not known in which colony surviving son Johann Christoph settled.

There are two Drotter families that traveled together from German to the Volga German region. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.

(1) Konrad Drotter, a carpenter, his wife Kunigunda, and children (Johann, age 6; Maria, age 4; Anna, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

Just Walter, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

Joh. Just Walter and his wife Anna Maria are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johann Just Walter, a farmer, and his [new] wife Margaretha are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 119.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

Eckhard Daudrich [sic], a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Anna, age 14; Johann, age 12; Maria, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

Eckhard Daudrich, his wife Anna Maria, and chidren (Anna Elisabetha, age 15; Johann Caspar, age 12; Anna Maria, age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Karl Jenicke 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.

Joh. Carl Jenicke is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Karl Enicke [sic], a miller (Müller), and his [new] wife Dorothea are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 108.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

Andreas Mai, a farmer, and his wife Barbara are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 113.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The 1767 census records that Andreas Mai came from the German village of Kernbach.

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