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Georg Märker, a farmer, and his wife Sophia are recorded on the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 79. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Georg Märker came from the German region of Dessau.

Johanna Maria Siebold from Vonhausen married Johann Nikolaus Hohnstein on 20 December 1764 in Eckartshausen.

Nikolaus Hohnstein, his wife [Joh]Anna Maria, daughter Anna Margaretha (age ½), and mother-in-law Anna Margaretha [surname not recorded] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 August 1766 aboard the pink Slon under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.

Johannes Imherr, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and children (Christina, age 15; Elisabeth, age 9; Heinrich, age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 62. They had settled there on 21 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Imherr came from the German village of Brückenau.

Johann Beier, a farmer, and his wife Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Kraft on 18 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 27.

The 1767 census records that Johann Beier came from the German village of Londorf.

Georg Jacob Seiler, son of Johann Conrad & Maria Agnes Seiler, was baptized 14 August 1734 in Bretten. He married in Bretten on 31 January 1758 to Maria Barbara Leonhardt, daughter of Georg Leonhardt.

The baptism of three of their children are recorded in Bretten: (1) Justina Barbara, baptized 15 August 1758; (2) Georg Peter, baptized 23 March 1760; and (3) Johann Leonhard, baptized 30 January 1762.

Christian Russ, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Maria, and son Johann Martin (age 17) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 60 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Meinhard in 1768.

Son [Johann] Martin Russ from Meinhard is recorded on the 1798 census of Kind in Household No. Kd01.

The 1767 census records that Christan Russ came from the German village of Westerburg.

Widower Jakob Reinhardt, a locksmith (Schlosser), and his son Heinrich (age 2-months) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 61.

Margaretha Reinhardt née Weigand, widow of Jakob Reinhardt, and her children are recorded on the 1798 census of Meinhard in Household No. Mn02.

The 1767 census records that Jakob Reinhardt came from the German village of Kumpelstadt.

Heinrich Otzen, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

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

Heinrich Otzen, a single farmer, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 79 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Meinhard in 1768.