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Jakob Jäger, a farmer, and his wife Anna Maria 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 are believed to have settled in the Volga German colony of Hussenbach.

The Movement Tables accompanying the 1798 census of Hussenbach record that in 1788, widow Anna Maria Jäger "received free passport" after paying her debts.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Jäger came from the German region of Isenburg.

Johannes Armbrecht (age 21), a single farmer, is recorded on the 1767 census of Messer in Household No. 66.

Johannes Armbrecht and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Messer in Household No. Ms73.

The Armbrecht family is recorded on the 1862-63 Family List of Neu-Messer.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Armbrecht came from the German region of Isenburg.

Michael Puntz [sic], a carpenter (Zimmermann), and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Maria Sophia under the command of Skipper Johann Bauert.

Michael Pontz, his wife Dorothea, and daughter Christina Barbara (born in route) are recorded on a 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 Michael Puntz [sic] came from the German region of Württemberg.

Ludwig Kreiner(t), his wife Elisabeth, and [servant] Karl [Hartmann] (age 16) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 August 1766 aboard the ship named Nordstern (North Star) under the command of Skipper Detlev Behling.

Ludwig Kreiner, his wife Elisabeth, son Johann Fridrich (born en route), and servant Karl Hartmann (age 16) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony Karl Hartmann settled.

Johann Samuel Bellmann, a single stocking maker, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 August 1766 aboard the ship named Nordstern (North Star) under the command of Skipper Detlev Behling.

Johann Bellmann is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that he died in route.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Samuel Bellmann came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony).

Johann Heinrich Fisser, a ropemaker, his wife Christina Elisabeth, and daughters (Johanna Dorothea, age 10½; Christina Elisabeth, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 August 1766 aboard the ship named Nordstern (North Star) under the command of Skipper Detlev Behling.

Johann Joachim Binkler [sic], a single blacksmith (Schmied), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 August 1766 aboard the ship named Nordstern (North Star) under the command of Skipper Detlev Behling.

Johann Pickener, his [new] wife Christina Elisabeth [widow of Johann Heinrich Fisser], daughter (Johanna Elisabeth, age ½), and [step-]daughter Johanna Dorothea [Fisser] (age 9½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767. [See Fisser Family.]

Johann Friedrich Lehmann, a farmer, and his wife Anna Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 August 1766 aboard the ship named Nordstern (North Star) under the command of Skipper Detlev Behling.

Joh. Fridrich Lehmann and his wife Anna Christina are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Joh. Fridrich Lehmann died en route.

It is not known in which colony the widow Lehmann settled.