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Mattias Biel, a farmer, and his wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Schönchen on 17 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 11 along with a note that they resettled to the colony of Meinhard in 1768.

The 1767 census records that Mattias Biel came from the German village of Bierbach.

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

Heinrich Reck, a blacksmith, his wife Margaretha, and daughters (Eleonora, age 3; Margaretha, age 1) 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. Heinr. Reck and his wife Margaretha are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Heinrich Reck, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha Wilhelmina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 111.

Heronimus Schmitter, a single farmer, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 127 along with a note that he settled in the Volga German colony of Schaffhausen in 1768.

The 1767 census records that Heronimus Schmitter came from the German region of Hamburg.

Widower Philipp Schneider and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schaffhausen in Household No. Sh39.

The death of Philipp Schneider in 1819 is recorded on the 1834 census of Schaffhausen in Household No. 78.

Widower Johann Georg Schneidmüller, a tailor (Schneider), is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 132 along with a note that he settled in the colony of Schaffhausen in 1768.

The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Schneidmüller came from the German village of Stieg in the Schwaben (Swabia) region.

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

Justus Deus [sic], his wife Anna, and children (Michael, age 19; Heinrich, age 15; Johann, age 11; Jakob, age 7; Katharina, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.

Johann Dannwelff [sic] is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johann Damwolf [sic], a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Kunigunda are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 97. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767.

Johann Danewolf and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schaffhausen in Household No. Sh11.

The 1767 census records that Johann Danewolf came from the German village of Berolzheim.