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Heinrich Hahn [sic], a farmer, his wife Barbara, and children (Johann, age 15; Ulrich, age 10; Barbara, age 8; Georg, age 4; Margaretha, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.

Heinrich Haagen, his wife Barbara, and children (Johannes, age 17; Ulrich, age 11; Barbara, age 9; Georg, age 4; Margretha, age ½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Herrmann Habetits [sic] & Maria Riedel were married on 18 June 1766 in Roßlau.

Herrmann Gabertanz [sic], a farmer, and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the snow-brig Frei Gebruder under the command of Skipper Minzberger.

Hermann Hasetitsch [sic] and his wife Margretha are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Hans [Georg] Gebert, a farmer, his wife Kunigunda, and children (Margaretha, age 13; Nikolaus, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.

Georg Gaber [sic], his wife Cunigunda, and children (Margretha, age 13; Nicolaus, age 6) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Margretha died en route.

Heinrich Hollig, a farmer, and his wife Eva settled in the Volga German colony of Hölzel on 11 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 23.

The 1767 census records that Heinrich Hollig came from the German vilalge of Richel [?] in the Kurpfalz region.

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

Nikolaus Jäger, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and daughter [perhaps his sister] Anna Maria (age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Hölzel in Household No. 32. They had settled there on 11 September 1767.

The widow and daughter of Nikolaus Jäger are recorded on the 1798 census of Hölzel in Household No. Hz25.

The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Jäger came from the German village of Gerlinheim [?] in the Trier region.

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

Widower Nikolaus Leonhard, a farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Hölzel on 5 September 1767. His wife had died during the journey from St. Petersburg to the Volga region. Nikolaus is recorded on the 1767 census of Hölzel in Household No. 59.

The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Nigausdorf in the Bamberg region.

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

Joseph Weis [sic], a farmer, his wife Apollonia, and children (Christoph, age 9; Heinrich, age 4) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Joseph Miess [sic], his wife Apollonia, and children (Henricus, age 13; Christoph, age 4) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Orphaned siblings Nikolaus Müller (age 15) and Margaretha (age 14) are recorded on the 1767 census of Hölzel in Household No. 38 along with the Johannes Manlinger family.

The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Müller and Manlinger families.

The 1767 census does not record from where the Müller children came.

Joh. Neu is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767. This may be the same Johannes who is recorded in Hölzel in 1767.

Johann[es] Neu, a farmer, his wife Maria, son Franziskus (age ¼), stepdaughter Anna Maria [surname not recorded] (age 7), and sister-in-law Maria Eva [surname not recorded] (age 20) are recorded on the 1767 census of Hölzel in Household No. 29. They had settled there on 11 September 1767.

The 1767 census records that Johann[es] Neu came from the German village of Gelpern [?] in the Trier region.