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Braun (Kind)*

Johann Braun, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children [some evidently step-children] (Johann [Heinrich Werner], age 17¼; Elisabeth, age 14; Nikolaus [Werner], age 12; Konrad, age 10) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Hamm (Unknown)*

Oswald Hamm, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Ostwald Hamm is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Oswald Hahn, a farmer, and his wife Anna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 26.

Koppel

Kaspar Koppel, a farmer, and his single sister Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Caspar Coppell [sic] and his sister Elisabeth are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.

Speier (Kind)*

Adam Speier, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Johann Adam Speier, a farmer, and his wife Anna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 9.

They are recorded as the baptismal sponsors of Johann Adam Dillmann, son of Johann Balthasar Dillmann & Anna Maria Wilg, who was baptized 7 July 1766 in the Lutheran Cathedral (Evangelische Kirche Dom) in Lübeck.

Hillenbach*

August Hillenbach, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Daniel, age 20; Dorothea, age 17¼; Elisabeth, age 14; Karl, age 11; Karolina, age 7; Henrietta, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax along with maiden Anna Elisabeth and her daughter Margaretha (age ½) [who are not recorded in the Pleve publication of the Kuhlberg List] .

Meier (Katharinenstadt-2)

Adam Meier, a farmer, his wife Eva, and sons (Johann, age 14; Heinrich, age 6; Nikolaus, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Adam Meyer [sic], his wife Eisabeth, and sons (Johann Christoph, age 14; Joh. Heinrich, age 6; Philipp Franz, age ¼) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.

Eiff (Kind)*

Michael Eiff, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and son Heinrich (age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Michael Eiff, his wife Catharina, and son Heinrich (age 4) are recorded on the list of those being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.

Johann Michael Eiff, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and son Heinrich (age 2) are recorded on a appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya.

Kessel (Norka)*

Gerdrauth Kessel from Leÿdecken [sic] married in Büdingen on 24 May 1766 to Christoph Weitzel from Bönstadt.

Christoph & Gertrude Weitzel arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard the ship Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.

Christoph Weitzel and his wife Gerdruta are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 traveling with Jacob & Anna Maria Weitzel. A note on the transport list records that Christoph died en route. [See Weitzel Family.]