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Peter Metzger (age 13) is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Orphan Peter Metzger (age 14) settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 176  along with a note that he is working as a day-laborer (Lohnarbeiter).

The 1767 census records that Peter Metzger came from the German region of Holstein.

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

Johann Friedrich Mitzig (age 2) is recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 53 along with his stepfather Samuel Zifler.

The 1767 census does not record from where Johann Friedrich Mitzig came.

Johann Georg Koch, a brewer (Bierbrauer), his wife Katharina, and [step-]son Johann Heinrich [Nies] (age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 June 1766 aboard the ship Die Vergelte Weintraube under the command of Skipper Anderson.

Johann Heinrich Nissen [sic] (age 8) is recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 37 along with his stepfather Johann Georg Koch.

Johann Heinrich Nies and his stepfather Johann Georg Koch are recorded on the 1798 census of Warenburg in Household No. Wr115.

Johann Georg Burgardt, a farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 109 along with his wife Anna Elisabeth and mother Anna Ursula. A note on the 1767 census records that Johann Georg Burgardt died 12 September 1767.

The 1767 census records that Anna Elisabeth Burgardt came from the German village of Weinbach in the Isenburg region.

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

Johann Georg Becker, a merchant (Kaufmann), and his wife Maria Ottilia settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 75.

The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Becker came from the German village of Dernduf [?] in the Ansbach region.

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

Katharina Sorberger, daughter of Johann Georg & Susanna Sorberger, was born 10 July 1744 in Wolf. Johann Georg Jäkel, son of Kaspar & Anna Elisabeth Jäkel, was born in Vonhausen on 1 December 1737.

Johann Georg Jäckel from Vonhausen and Catharina Sorberger, daughter of Johann Georg Sorberger, the school teacher (Schuldiener) from Wolff, were married on 16 April 1766 in Büdingen.

Georg Jäkel, a farmer, and his wife Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Moor on 18 June 1767.

Nikolaus Tak, a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and daughter Maria (age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Volmer in Household No. 43. They had settled there on 18 July 1766.

The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Tak came from the German region of Zweibrücken.

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

Tobias Bäcker, his wife Margaretha, and children (Johann Georg, age 11; Anna Margaretha, age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Volmer in Household No. 23. They had settled there on 18 July 1767.

The 1767 census records that Tobias Bäcker came from the German region of Braunfels.