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Johannes Meier, a farmer, his wife Christina, and son Jakob (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.

Joh. Meyer [sic] and his wife Christina are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johannes Meier, a farmer, his wife Christina, and son Wilhelm (9-months) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 21.

Heinrich Dietrich, a farmer, and his wife Eva are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 14.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The 1767 census records that Heinrich Dietrich came from the German vilage of Versen [?] in the Düneburg.

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

Bernhard Montur [?] Wagner, his wife Anna, and children (Johanna, age 3; Jakob, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.

Bernhardt Wagener [sic], his [new?] wife Dorothea, and children (Johanna, age 3; Caspar, age 1½; Anna Christina, born in route) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that both Caspar and newborn Anna Christina died in route.

It is not known in which colony this Wagner family settled.

Johann Georg Pfeifer, his wife Rosina, and children (Johann, age 17¼; Maria, age 16¼; Adam, age 11½; Anna, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.

Joh. G. Pfeiffer, his wife Rosina, and children (Johann, age 17; Maria, age 16; Carl Adam, age 11; Anna, age 10) are recorded on a list of colonist being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Rosina died in route.

It is not known in which colony this family settled.

Gottfried Müller and his wife Karolina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.

Gottfried Müller and his wife Carolina are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Gottfried died in route.

It is not known in which colony the widow Carolina Müller settled.

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

Peter Scheidt, a miller (Müller), and his wife Maria are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 9 along with his stepchildren (Sabina Lepkrenk, age 17; Jakob Lepkrenk, age 12; Peter Lepkrenk, age 5).

It is not known in which colony either the Scheidt or Lepkrenk families settled.

The 1767 census records that Peter Scheidt came from the German village of Schedremich [?].

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

Siblings Anna Maria (age 4) and Konrad (age 2) Michel are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No 2 along with their step-father Georg Zimmermann.

It is presumed that they settled in the colony of Schönchen along with their parents.

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

Philipp Wilhelm Schäfer, a soldier (Soldat), and his wife Marianna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 1.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The 1767 census records that Philipp Wilhelm Schäfer came from the German town of Stuttgart.

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